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Talk to me, says Delhi Health Minister to Lt.Gov after he asks Deputy CM to return from foreign

Talk to me, says Delhi Health Minister to Lt.Gov after he asks Deputy CM to return from foreign

| | 17 Sep 2016, 02:35 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS) : In the latest brush between Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the Centre's representative, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has attacked Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung for ordering Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to cut short his Finland visit and return to the capital following the massive incidence of chikungunya and dengue.

"The L-G should call me, I am health minister, not the Dy CM....Why can't the L-G go with me to the hospitals meet patients," media reports quoted Jain as saying.

The development takes at a time when Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is  away for surgery in Bengaluru and his deputy is in Finland on an 'educational tour.'

The opposition, specially the BJP, has made a bitter criticism of the Government for having both the CM and his deputy out of the city when the disease wreaks havoc in the national capital.

Earlier in the day, reports quoted the LG office as saying that Najeeb Jung had asked Sisodia to come back to Delhi immediately to take charge of the situation in the absence of the CM.

Sisodia responded on Twitter, saying, "Learning from across the world is not a sin. It's a sin to defame an educational tour as a 'holiday'. I'm in Finland. We need to learn a lot from their education system, the best in the world (sic)."

Sisodia is returning from Finland on Sunday, while Kejriwal is supposed to be back by September 22 tomorrow.

In Delhi, altogether 20 people have so far died of  chikungunya and dengue with more than 3,000 people being affected by mosquito-borne diseases.

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