A new tussle started between the Delhi Lieutenant Governor, VK Saxena and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the inauguration of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprasth University in East Delhi.

Delhi education minister, Atishi had announced the inauguration of the university by the Delhi CM which prompted the Delhi LG to issue a statement saying, “Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself was aware of the fact that the L-G was scheduled to inaugurate the campus. In fact, they were also aware that they were supposed to be present in the function as Guest of Honour and distinguished guest, as desired by the L-G and had also consented to it.”

“Moreover, even on the day when Atishi made this claim in a press conference, i.e. 06.06.2023, earlier during the day, the VC of GGSIPU had announced on stage at the Convocation of GGSIPU, where Atishi was present as a Guest of Honour, that the East Campus of the University was scheduled to be inaugurated by the Lt. Governor on 08.06.2023,” it added.  

Reacting to this Delhi education minister, Atishi said that the L-G should not forget that education, higher education and technical education are all transferred subjects.

Even Delhi minister Saurabh Bhardwaj reacted to this, saying that the L-G should focus on inauguration of buildings which come under Police, Land and Public order.

“The construction of this campus started when he (VK Saxena) was not the L-G. Manish Sisodia started this work and our elected government took it further. It is strange now for the L-G to say that he was asked by officials to inaugurate the university campus,” Bhardwaj said.

“At this rate, the L-G could say tomorrow that he would inaugurate Saurabh Bhardwaj’s office. That’s why L-G has kept all officers under his control and wants to keep it going. The CM is the one vested with the moral authority to inaugurate the campus. Such thoughts should not even come to the L-G’s mind,” he added.

Tensions have been rising between the Delhi L-G and Delhi CM for the past few years over various matters. Notably, in May this year a Supreme Court judgement had ruled that the Delhi government had powers over civil services in the Delhi after which the Centre had brought in an ordinance regarding civil services giving more power to the L-G, creating more friction between the two posts.

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List of TV news anchors INDIA bloc decided to boycott

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The meeting of the 14-member coordination committee of The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc which held at the residence of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar in Delhi. INDIA bloc decided to boycott 14 TV news anchors and four TV news programs. The channels that have been boycotted by the alliance include Times Now, Republic Bharat, Sudarshan News and Doordarshan.

The leaders have decided to boycott certain news anchors and networks because of their allegedly controversial and divisive debate shows. They have also claimed that the decision was made because these programs distract the country from pressing problems.

The list of TV hosts that the Congress Party has chosen to boycott during the INDIA bloc conference has been released. The list of TV news anchors has also been released by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

The list of the Anchors that have been boycotted is as follows:

  1. Aman Chopra
  2. Prachi Parashar
  3. Rubika Liaquat
  4. Chitra Tripathi
  5. Sudhir Chaudhary
  6. Amish Devgan
  7. Arnab Goswami
  8. Navika Kumar
  9. Anand Narasimha
  10. Gaurav Sawant
  11. Aditi Tyagi
  12. Sushant Sinha
  13. Ashok Shrivastav
  14. Shiv Aroor

The committee also agreed to organize group public meetings across the nation. In the first week of October, Bhopal will host the first public discussion on the subject of growing costs, unemployment, and BJP government corruption.

Members present at the Meeting

KC Venugopal (Congress), TR Baalu (DMK), Hemant Soren (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena UBT), Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Raghav Chaddha (AAP), Javed Ali Khan (SP), D Raja (CPI), Sitaram Yechury (CPI(M)), and Omar Abdullah (National Conference).

Sudhir Chaudhary the Aaj Tak Journalist responded to the list on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, saying that the TV anchors mentioned in the list “refused to be boot lickers and hence are being boycotted”.

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