Centre muzzling state govts through governors, LGs: AAP

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh on Friday attacked the Centre in Rajya Sabha, accusing it of creating hurdles in the functioning of the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi and muzzling the state governments through governors and lieutenant governors. Participating in a discussion in Rajya Sabha on a private member’s bill moved by MDMK founder Vaiko asking to bring back all the subjects that were transferred from the state list to the concurrent list in the last 70 years, Singh alleged that the BJP-led cental government wants to run states through governors and lieutenant governors.


“Through governor and lieutenant governors you (Centre) are muzzling state government’s rights. I believe these posts should be done away with,” Singh said.

He claimed that the AAP-led government in Delhi was the biggest sufferer in the country due to lack of transparency between the Centre and the states.

Highlighting that the

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shot to power with an unprecedented mandate of 67 out of 70 seats in Delhi, Singh alleged that the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre soon after issued a directive entrusting the power of transfers and posting to the Union Home Ministry.

Even the Anti Corruption Bureau which had filed 16 cases under the Commonwealth Games scam was brought under the Centre's administrative control, he said and asked what the Centre has done to bring the guilty to book in the Commonwealth Games scam.

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