Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday apologised to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his office did a live telecast of the internal meeting on tackling COVID-19 between the PM and the CMs of different states.

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Kejriwal apologized for his act after PM Modi expressed displeasure over it.

The Prime Minister had called a virtual meeting of the chief ministers of the states severely affected by COVID-19 on Friday. During this, PM Modi came to know that this internal meeting is being broadcast live by Arvind Kejriwal's office. Modi rebuked Kejriwal, saying "It is against government protocol that a sitting Chief Minister of a state live telecasts an in-house meeting. It is not fair. We should follow the government protocol."

Kejriwal apologized, saying "If I have committed any mistake then I apologize for it. Whatever instructions have been directed in the meeting on Friday, we will follow those instructions."

Delhi Chief Minster's Office (CMO) also said it has regretted the inconvenience caused by the live streaming of the conference, adding that there was never any instruction from the Centre that the interaction could not be shared live.

"Today, the Chief Minister address was shared live because there has never been any instruction, written or verbal, from central govt that the said interaction could not be shared live," said Delhi CMO in a statement on Friday.

It further said that there have been multiple occasions of similar interactions where matters of public importance which had no confidential information were shared live. "However, if any inconvenience was caused we highly regret that," the CMO said.

As per sources quoted by news agency IANS, during this virtual meeting, the Delhi Chief Minister made political statements instead of making suggestions to tackle the Covid-19 situation. The states are being helped by plying the Oxygen Express trains by the Indian Railways, but the Delhi government did not make any such demand.