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The Chief Minister’s residence successful Civil Lines is astatine the centre of different row, with Public Works Department (PWD) officials claiming they person not been handed implicit the keys aft erstwhile CM Arvind Kejriwal vacated the house.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), meanwhile, said the PWD handed implicit the cardinal to Kejriwal’s successor Atishi connected October 6 and she is successful the process of moving in. She besides held a gathering with the unit connected the premises, it said. Several photos, arsenic good arsenic a video of Atishi speaking to the staff, were shared by the party.
Senior PWD officials, however, said the keys were yet to beryllium handed implicit to the department, arsenic per process.
In a missive to the Special Secretary to the CM Office, Pravesh Ranjan Jha, connected Sunday, the PWD said that connected October 4, the keys to the location were handed implicit to it but “taken backmost aft immoderate time”. Jha could not beryllium reached for comment.
“Some vigilance cases pertaining to the operation of the residence… are underway. It is truthful indispensable connected the portion of PWD to undertake an inspection and a elaborate banal of inventories wrong the location anterior to making caller allotment of the house,” the missive states.
The missive refers to an ongoing enquiry regarding the expenditure successful reconstructing the location successful 2020-21.
Principal Secretary (PWD), A Anbarasu, told The Indian Express connected Monday that the missive had not been complied with. “As per records, allotment missive and authorisation gaffe are yet to beryllium issued,” helium added.
The AAP, however, said owed process has been followed. “The General Administration Department issued a no-dues certificate indicating erstwhile CM Kejriwal paid each water, energy and telephone bills associated with the CM residence… PWD has issued a ‘Vacation Report’ to erstwhile CM Kejriwal. A look astatine this study indicates that the Junior Engineer of PWD acrophobic has inspected the house, checked the inventory, and lone thereafter issued a abrogation report. It is lone aft this that the keys… were handed implicit by the PWD to existent CM Atishi,” the enactment said.
The no-dues certificate was issued connected Monday, portion the abrogation report, which contains details of the accommodation size and is signed by the conception serviceman of the CM campy bureau and a PWD inferior engineer, was issued connected Saturday.
The BJP, meanwhile, attacked AAP connected the substance and said AAP wanted Atishi to instrumentality possession of the location instantly arsenic it was trying to fell what was inside.
AAP, however, said the Opposition enactment was trying to mislead people. “Each of their (BJP’s) conspiracies has been exposed and defeated… Kejriwal has shown wherefore helium is regarded arsenic a person of unwavering integrity,” AAP said.
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