On Monday, 2nd June 2018, the Supreme Court made it clear that the lieutenant governor of Delhi can’t act independently of the state government, can’t be obstructionist toward what is an elected government and is not superior to the elected chief minister.
There are various reactions delivered through Twitter to this verdict by some of our politicians. Let’s see who has commented what on this matter:
1. Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief minister
2. Manish Sisodia is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Aam Aadmi Party. He has been the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015.
3. Sheila Dikshit a member of the Indian National Congress and the longest serving Chief Minister of Delhi.
4. Subramanian Swamy a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha and currently associated with Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Bhartiya Janta Party leader Subramanian Swamy called Arvind Kejriwal a ‘Naxalite’ and an ‘illiterate’ as Kejriwal’s sit-in protest against Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.
5. Vijender Gupta a Member of Legislative Assembly from Rohini constituency and also a member of BJP’s National Executive.
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6. Kumar Vishwas is a Hindi-language performance poet and an Indian politician and National Executive of Aam Aadmi Party.
7. Kapil Mishra is an MLA representing Karawal Nagar constituency in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He won the elections by a margin of 44431 votes. He took his oath in Sanskrit. He was removed from the position of Water Resource Minister in the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) government. Afterwards he sought appointment with the Anti corruption bureau to lodge complaint against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and another party member, Satyendra Jain, regarding 2 crores bribe money. Since then, he has been alleging more instances of corruption in AAP government under Arvind Kejriwal.
8. Yogendra Yadav was a member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party until 2015.
9. Singer Manoj Tiwari won the North East Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) in the 2014 Indian general elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.
10. Abhishek Singhvi is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and a current Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha.
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