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With Delhi coming under the direct control of Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, Wednesday saw a role reversal of sorts: Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani sought an audience with Jung, a former employee of undivided Reliance.
PMS Prasad, director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), owned by Anil Ambani's brother Mukesh, also met Jung, according to a Press Trust of India report.
An Indian Administrative Service officer, Jung worked as joint secretary in the petroleum ministry, before quitting to join Reliance, though after a brief academic stint in London. In its brief term of less than two months, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has left both the Reliance Group and RIL facing various inquiries. While AAP chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had ordered a First Information Report against Mukesh Ambani by the government's Anti-Corruption Bureau, two distribution companies floated by Anil Ambani's RPower are facing an audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
An RIL spokesperson did not respond on the meeting between PMS Prasad and Jung. A Reliance Group spokesperson termed the Anil Ambani-Jung meeting a "courtesy call".
'No subsidy to those who haven't paid power bills'
The high court here on Wednesday directed the city government not to implement the 50 per cent subsidy announced by the former Delhi government to people who did not pay their power bills from October 2012 to December 2013. The court directed the standing counsel of the Delhi government to seek instructions and file an affidavit indicating the actual position on the proposal of the AAP government.
