Sanjay Singh meets Home Minister to end logjam

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Friday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss the logjam in the Capital and urged him to pacify the situation.

The AAP leader said that the meeting was successful, however later alleged that Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal wants the people of Delhi to suffer as neither he nor the Prime Minister are "concerned" to address the issue his party has raised.

"I narrated to him the entire situation in Delhi and how IAS officers have been avoiding important government meetings during the past four months," Singh said.

"The Home Minister has promised he will take up the matter with the LG and find a solution to the issue," he added.

However, he also observed that the LG and the Prime Minister are "not concerned about the resolving the issue."

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with his deputy Manish Sisodia and Cabinet ministers Satyendra Jain and Gopal Rai have been camping at Raj Niwas – the official accommodation-cum-office of Baijal – since Monday evening.

They have been demanding the LG to direct IAS officers working in the Delhi administration to end their undeclared strike, take action against officers who have hampered work for "four months", and approve the AAP government's proposal for doorstep delivery of ration to the poor.

Kejriwal has that said he and his colleagues would not leave Baijal's office until their demands are met.