Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena orders Chief Secretary to get better Rs 97 crore from AAP for “political advertisements that had been revealed as authorities advertisements”

Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena with Chief Minister and AAP boss Arvind Kejriwal at a operate. (File)

New Delhi:

Days after the AAP ran a profitable ballot marketing campaign for Delhi’s civic physique, the Lieutenant Governor has ordered that the occasion pay Rs 97 crore for state authorities advertisements that had been allegedly used for the occasion’s promotion as a substitute. 

Earlier this month, the AAP, which holds energy within the Delhi meeting since 2015, ended the 15-year reign of the BJP within the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD). 

Lt Governor VK Saxena has taken the motion on advertisements as a result of the AAP allegedly violated orders of the Supreme Courtroom (2015) and the Delhi Excessive Courtroom (2016), in addition to norms set by the court-mandated Committee on Content material Regulation in Authorities Promoting (2016), reported information company ANI.

The Chief Secretary has been directed to get better the cash spent from Delhi authorities funds.

The AAP has been alleging “political vendetta” by the Lieutenant Governor, who’s appointed by the central authorities and has management over a number of wings of Delhi’s governance in a fancy — usually complicated and conflicted — distribution of powers within the nationwide capital.

Runs-in between successive appointees and Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP authorities are actually common fixtures, starting from corruptions allegations at one another and contradictory orders on administrative issues.

One of many AAP ministers has been in jail since June on fees of cash laundering, whereas AAP’s Quantity 2, Manish Sisodia, has additionally confronted raids for alleged corruption within the since-withdrawn liquor gross sales coverage.

The AAP has accused Mr Saxena of corruption throughout his tenure as head of the Khadi and Village Industries Fee earlier than he turned Lieutenant Governor.

Mr Saxena has sued the AAP over alleged defamation on social media, at which the court docket instructed the occasion to take down sure tweets.