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INDIA - DEMOCRACY
- SHUNGLU COMMITEE REPORT |
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Date-wise Events |
- August 04, 2016: The Delhi
High Court ruled that the Lt Governor is the administrative
head of Delhi and held decisions taken by the Delhi
government without consulting the Lt Governor as illegal.
- August 30, 2016: Lt
Governor Najeeb Jung had set up an expert committee to
examine the 400-odd files for 'infirmities and
irregularities' pertaining to decisions taken by the Arvind
Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party government without his
approval.
- November 27, 2016: The
committee submitted its report, but was not made public.
- April 06, 2017: The report
was fetched by Congress Party through the aegis of RTI Act
and made the same public on this day.
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Description |
- The 100 page report deals with decisions, including the
appointment of certain individuals as advisors to the
government, taken by Kejriwal and his cabinet where it had
no authority do so and without the LG's concurrence.
- The committee has flagged decisions, including the
allotment of land to the AAP for its party office, the
appointment of health minister Jain's daughter as "mission
director" of the Delhi State Health Mission and a number of
purported AAP functionaries as "advisors", in its report.
- The report observes that the genesis of the conflict lay
in an April 2015 order issued by Kejriwal to all the
departments. It directed officers to take decisions without
consulting the Lt Governor on all subjects that have been
transferred to the Delhi Assembly under Article 239AA(3)a of
the Indian Constitution.
- The panel, which examined 404 files of the Kejriwal
government, said the decision to allot land to the AAP to
build a party office should be considered "null and void".
It also questioned the allotment of residence to DCW
chairperson Swati Maliwal.
- The report also raised questions on the government
posting officers to the anti-corruption branch, its
decisions on transfer and appointments of officers, foreign
travel undertaken by ministers without the LG's sanction and
appointment of lawyers.
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