AAP MLAs occupy L-G’s house for 7 hrs

In a first of its kind standoff, 45 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs “occupied” the conference hall of Raj Niwas for more than seven hours, requesting Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to speed up the process in clearing all files related to Mohalla Clinics.

The MLAs entered the L-G’s house at 2:30 pm and came out at around 9 pm on Wednesday, after Baijal decided to meet them, along with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the cabinet, at 5 pm on Thursday. The group of MLAs headed by party’s spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj had come to Civil Lines to discuss the delay in dealing with the files related to Mohalla Clinics.

“We have been asking the L-G to sort out the issue of Mohalla Clinics. Call all officers handling files related to Mohalla Clinics and sort out the issue soon, which is pending for the last two years,” Bharadwaj said, through Facebook live sitting in the conference hall.

The MLAs kept posting videos and photos from the L-G house informing about the minute to minute development.

Calling the MLA’s behaviour ‘rude’, L-G house in a statement said “The Hon’ble LG, after a patient hearing of the views of the MLAs, explained the current status of …read more