Earlier in the day, the Delhi government suggested name of the eminent novelist as the new chief of DCW to Jung.
Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia said that the post should be occupied by a non-political person. ‘Our government is not interested in giving such a post to any political person. Barkha Singh lost the Delhi assembly election as a Congress candidate,’ Sisodia said.
‘As per its promise to appoint a non-political, eminent personality as DCW chairperson, the government has proposed Maitreyi Pushpa’s name to the lieutenant governor,’ Sisodia said.
69-year-old Pushpa is a Hindi fiction writer and has 10 novels and seven short story collections to her credit.
Best known among her works are ‘Chak’, ‘Alma Kabutari’, ‘Jhoola Nat’ and an autobiographical novel ‘Kasturi Kundal Base’.
Meanwhile, Barkha Singh alleaged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government took the step after she summoned Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti to explain his controversial campaign against an alleged prostitution racket.
Refusing to step down from the post, she said: ‘I’ve still one year and four months left of my tenure and it’s a constitutional post. They’re doing (this) because I summoned Somnath Bharti. On Thursday, I’m going to meet the lieutenant governor.’
Earlier this month, Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely had asked all party men to quit from various posts in government-run boards and commissions.
But when asked about the same on Wednesday, Lovely said that he has withdrawn his direction to party men to relinquish their posts.
In a significant and related development the name and profile of Barkha Singh was missing from DCW website late in the evening.
Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia said that the post should be occupied by a non-political person. ‘Our government is not interested in giving such a post to any political person. Barkha Singh lost the Delhi assembly election as a Congress candidate,’ Sisodia said.
‘As per its promise to appoint a non-political, eminent personality as DCW chairperson, the government has proposed Maitreyi Pushpa’s name to the lieutenant governor,’ Sisodia said.
69-year-old Pushpa is a Hindi fiction writer and has 10 novels and seven short story collections to her credit.
Best known among her works are ‘Chak’, ‘Alma Kabutari’, ‘Jhoola Nat’ and an autobiographical novel ‘Kasturi Kundal Base’.
Meanwhile, Barkha Singh alleaged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government took the step after she summoned Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti to explain his controversial campaign against an alleged prostitution racket.
Refusing to step down from the post, she said: ‘I’ve still one year and four months left of my tenure and it’s a constitutional post. They’re doing (this) because I summoned Somnath Bharti. On Thursday, I’m going to meet the lieutenant governor.’
Earlier this month, Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely had asked all party men to quit from various posts in government-run boards and commissions.
But when asked about the same on Wednesday, Lovely said that he has withdrawn his direction to party men to relinquish their posts.
In a significant and related development the name and profile of Barkha Singh was missing from DCW website late in the evening.