Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel today directed Revenue Secretary Manisha Saxena to be present during the House proceedings tomorrow as Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia would give his reply to a question on a mob allegedly assaulting the principal and teachers of a government school for scolding a student.
The second day of the Budget Session saw Goel, Sisodia and the ruling AAP MLAs targeting the bureaucrats in the House.
The speaker's directions came after AAP MLA Gulab Singh, in a written question, sought to know whether it was a fact that a mob of around 50 people forcibly entered a government school and allegedly assaulted the principal and teachers for scolding a student.
Replying to the question, Sisodia said he was not aware of any such incident, adding that he would inform the House about it tomorrow, after discussing the matter with the officers.
In his question, Singh had said a senior IAS officer, Manisha Saxena, had mentioned a similar incident in an interview to a Hindi daily.
The AAP legislators objected to the officer's interview on the matter and sought Saxena's response. Goel then directed her to be present in the House tomorrow during the deputy chief minister's reply on the issue.
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Earlier in the day, Goel ordered the Privilege Committee of the House to probe a matter, in which the officers of the vigilance department had allegedly refused to reply to a question.
The speaker directed Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash to provide the answer to the question asked by AAP MLA Pankaj Pushkar and warned the officers that they should not force him to the extent that he would not sign the Delhi Budget 2018-19, to be tabled in the House on March 22.
The AAP dispensation and the bureaucrats have been at loggerheads over a range of issues.
Since an alleged attack on Prakash by some AAP MLAs at the CM's residence last month, the officers have been boycotting the meetings with the ministers.
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