Home Ministry declares officers suspension null

The Indian Administrative Service Association did not comment on the remark, though one officer said if Kejriwal had issues regarding administrative control over senior officers, he should sort it out with the Centre. “The lt governor has already asked officers to defy government decision”, he charged.

Kejriwal added that Jung was in touch with Nripendra Misra, the principal secretary to the Prime Minister. “They can give their names and I will ensure that they are moved out of Delhi”, a furious Kejriwal said.

It alleged Kejriwal was always looking for conflict to keep the attention away from his failure in providing good governance and said it did not have “right intentions”. Today, the Union home ministry declared the suspensions invalid. He also said that if need arises, government will hire private staff to complete pending work.

Delhi witnessed an unprecedented political acrimony between the Arvind Kejriwal government and the BJP-ruled Centre in 2015 which earlier saw the Aam Aadmi Party making history by storming to power with an overwhelming haul of 67 seats in the 70-member assembly. “IAS officers played politics… we will not tolerate this goondaism”. He participated in the meeting through speaker phone.

The action, threatening to blow into another AAP-Centre confrontation, was taken after Garg and Chandra refused to sign a file pertaining to the Cabinet decision to increase salary of public prosecutors, the spokesperson said. “All system pertaining to governance is based online today and government will not suffer”, Jain said without even considering the import of his words.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Delhi president Satish Upadhyay condemned the suspension of the two officers, saying the city government was harassing officials and demanded Jain’s resignation.

For declining to sign up a document regarding a choice of their state cupboard to improve the income of government attorneys, The Delhi government has stopped two senior officials of its house division.

It has apprised Union Home Minister of the development. He proposed replacing IAS officers with the experts, alleging that it is the bureaucracy that was creating hurdles in everything and the country was facing so many problems due to this.