Can't go inside someone's house and hold strike: Delhi HC on AAP sit-in at LG's office
AAP protest, LG waiting room
'This can’t be called a strike,' the high court said, asking who had authorised the sit-in at the LG's waiting room. Delhi CM Arvind Kejrirwal and a few of his cabinet colleagues have been on their sit-in since last Monday
The Delhi High Court on Monday slammed the AAP government for its sit-in at the Lieutenant Governor's waiting room.
Kejriwal and a few of his ministers have been protesting at Raj Niwas since Monday.
"This can’t be called a strike. You can’t go inside someone’s office or house and hold a strike there," the high court told the Delhi government's counsel.
When the lawyer claimed Delhi's IAS officers had accepted on Sunday that they were not attending meetings called by AAP ministers, the court asked: "Thing is that you’re sitting on a dharna. Who authorised them to sit on a dharna like this?"
When the lawyer said it was an individual decision, the court asked whether the sit-in was "authorised".
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The bench of Justices AK Chawla and Navin Chawla was hearing two petitions, one against the AAP sit-in and the other against the alleged strike by the Delhi government's IAS officers.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and a few of his ministers had gone to visit the LG on Monday to ask him to help call off the "strike" by Delhi's IAS officers. They began theirsit-in at the LG's waiting room when he refused to meet them.
The IAS officers say they are not on strike. The AAP government says they do not attend meetings called by ministers nor pick up phone calls from them.
Delhi's AAP government and the city's bureaucrats have been at loggerheads ever since an alleged assault on Delhi's Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by two AAP MLAs.
The assault allegedly took place at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's home and in his presence.