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Despite opposition from Delhi CM Kejriwal, Shakuntala Gamlin takes charge as acting Chief Secretary

On Saturday, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had asked senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin not to take charge as acting Chief Secretary of Delhi government.

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Despite severe opposition from Arvind Kejriwal governement, Shakuntala Gamlin took charge as acting Chief Secretary of Delhi Government on Saturday.

The confrontation between Delhi Lt Governor and the AAP government on Saturday intensified with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asking senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin to not take charge as acting Chief Secretary of the city,a day after she was appointed to the post by Jung.

A senior Delhi government official said that in his letter to Gamlin, Kejriwal has said that her appointment is against the set rule. In view of this, she should not take charge as acting Chief Secretary of Delhi.

The move came a day after Lt Governor Najeeb Jung gave the additional charge of Chief Secretary to Gamlin, a 1984-batch IAS officer, hours after she wrote a scathing letter to Jung claiming that she was pressurised by a senior bureaucrat in CM's office not to be in race for the post due to her alleged proximity to BSES discoms.

Slamming the LG's move, the AAP government had yesterday said the LG cannot bypass the elected government and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and that he acted against "the Constitution, GNCT of Delhi Act and the Transaction of Business Rules."

Jung had promptly rebutted the AAP government's allegations saying under Article 239 AA of the Constitution of India, the the Lt Governor is the representative of State Authority in Delhi.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday accused LG Jung of ‘unconstitutionally’ appointing senior bureaucrat Gamlin as the acting Chief Secretary of the state government and said that he does not have any right to directly talk with any of the state government officials.

“Yesterday, the BJP has tried to topple the elected government in Delhi through the LG. For the first time, it has happened that LG is directing the officials. The CM and the Cabinet were sidelined, and he was in a way trying to run the government,” Sisodia had said on Saturday.

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