The two-slap precedent: Physical violence at a CM's residence is a new low

Fights between politicians and civil servants aren't new

Nobody has a doubt that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is made of street-fighters. Most, including its critics, would agree that since the day they got elected in Delhi, humiliating Narendra Modi’s BJP at its peak by winning 67 seats out of the 70, the Centre has launched a cold war on it, not letting it function even in accordance with the limited powers Delhi’s quasi statehood confers on them. There also isn’t much doubt now that the state’s chief secretary, a senior, soft-spoken and much-liked IAS officer (1986 batch) Anshu Prakash was manhandled at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s home