Nayak Kejriwal seeks 10 days to solve problems
30 Dec 2013 12:54 AM GMT
Despite having proclaimed at his swearing in ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on Saturday that he did not possess a magic wand to provide panacea for all the ills, newly appointed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday was once again flooded with applications for redressing grievances. Unable to handle the incessant flow of people with complaints, Kejriwal on Sunday sought 10 days time to formulate a system to address grievances and problems.Â
He said that he would accept the applications of the people visiting him only after a system is in place. The CM, who is being compared with the lead character played by Anil Kapoor in a film called Nayak, assured the visitors who gathered in large numbers at his residence that he needed their support to establish such a system and that without their backing he would not be able to resolve issues.
A section of DTC drivers and conductors, employed on contractual basis, reached the CM’s residence at Kaushambi in Ghaziabad on Sunday morning and pressed for their demand to make them permanent employees of the city’s main public transport operator. The Aam Aadmi Party in its manifesto had promised regularisation of all the contractual workers in the national capital.
In a related development, employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, who have not been paid their salaries for the past 17 months, on Sunday said they will seek help from the newly-elected Delhi CM in retrieving their dues. ‘In the past, we have requested to both the Congress and the BJP to intervene in the issue. But none of them came to our help. We will now approach Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and seek his help in getting our dues cleared,’ a Delhi-based Kingfisher Airlines employee told news agencies.
 He said KFA employees, about 500 of whom reside in Delhi, will seek an appointment with Kejriwal to apprise him of the ‘trauma, agony and the financial hardship’ that around 2,000 unpaid employees are going through for almost a year and a half. ‘Kejriwal is a ‘different’ politician and unlike others who are high on rhetoric but low on action,’ he said. ‘We are quite hopeful that Kejriwal will intervene in our issue in whatever way he can,’Â
he added.Â
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