Deputy Speaker of the Delhi Assembly Rakhi Birla said on Wednesday that LG V K Saxena has raised objections to the convening of the two-day session and added that his observations are “not correct”. Speaking in the Delhi Assembly, Birla said Saxena has written a letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in which the LG has expressed his objections to the two-day session, saying rules on it were not being followed.
The deputy speaker said that Saxena’s observations were “not correct” since the session that commenced on Wednesday was a continuation of the previous session convened in April.
Earlier, Saxena had also flagged “grave procedural lapses” in the session convened in April, which was called after Kejriwal received summons from the CBI for questioning him in connection with the excise policy case.
Birla also said that the Speaker has the power under the rules to convene the session anytime, even after the assembly is adjourned sine die. The Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, supported Saxena’s observations, following which a war of words erupted between him and Birla.
Tributes to those killed in recent clashes
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Assembly on Wednesday paid tributes to those killed in the ethnic violence in Manipur and communal clashes in Haryana’s Nuh and prayed for the restoration of peace in the strife-torn northeastern state. The session began with paying tributes to those killed in the Balasore train accident, five soldiers killed in a terror attack in Poonch, security personnel killed in Chhattisgarh, loss of human lives and property due to heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and people killed and injured in Manipur and Nuh.
