What strike? Eight AAP MLAs met us: Delhi bureaucrats

While Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal continued his protest against LG Anil Baijal and the ‘alleged’ strike by Delhi’s bureaucrats for the sixth day, at least eight AAP MLAs got in direct touch with chief secretary Anshu Prakash over developmental works in their constituencies, bureaucrats working in the Delhi government have claimed.

These eight MLAs include Adarsh Shastri, Alka Lamba, Pramila Tokas and Somnath Bharti.

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, the IAS officer’s Association denied charges made by the Kejriwal government for being on a ‘strike’ for the last four months. The officers claimed that MLAs have been meeting officers to get work done. “If we had been on strike, there would have been no meetings with the chief secretary,” said Amjad Tak, a deputy commissioner in the Delhi government. “I have taken calls of at least five MLAs in my area since the sit-in dharna, so there has been no question of a strike,” he said. Officers added that misinformation was being spread about them even though they were "apolitical" and "neutral" and were "answerable only to the law and the Constitution”.


Calling the allegations "completely false and baseless", the officers said, "We are not on strike. We are attending all meetings, doing all our work". They skip only the meetings in which they felt their "safety" and "self-respect" were at risk, they said.