Delhi CS assault case: AAP appeals officers not to obstruct work

Delhi | Saturday | 24th February, 2018

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"The Cabinet Secretary gave a patient hearing to all officials and officers present and acknowledged that they are working in a difficult environment," the forum said in a statement. "Whosoever it may be, the police will question all those in whose presence the incident took place," he had said. "He assured all employees of complete administrative and moral support. "We appeal to the officers that the government work should not suffer," Saurabh Bharadwaj, chief spokesperson of the AAP's Delhi unit, said.Yesterday, Kejriwal and his Cabinet colleagues had also met the Lt Governor and sought his intervention in defusing tensions between the AAP government and the bureaucrats.During its meeting with Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, the country's top bureaucrat, a joint forum of employees and officers of the Delhi government apprised him about the "difficult working conditions" prevailing under the AAP dispensation. NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday appealed to bureaucrats protesting the alleged assault on the chief secretary not to obstruct Delhi government's work, even as a forum of city officials met the cabinet secretary and apprised him of the "difficult working conditions" they were facing.As the standoff between the bureaucrats and the AAP government continued, Lt Governor Anil Baijal met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, two days after he submitted a preliminary report over the alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence.In the meeting, the Lt Governor briefed Singh about the incident and the prevailing situation under the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, sources said.With the governance of the Delhi government hit, the AAP sought to extend an olive branch to the officers..