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Delhi gov't accuses central gov't of destabilising its regime

Xinhua, July 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Delhi government on Monday accused the central government of destabilising its regime, moments after a top bureaucrat in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office was arrested by India's premier probe agency in a corruption case.

Rajendra Kumar, the principal secretary to the Delhi Chief Minister, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation this evening on charges of setting up a number of companies that were given work contracts without tenders, causing a huge loss to Delhi government.

The alleged irregularities took place before the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party came to power in Delhi earlier last year, according to the central probe agency.

But Delhi's deputy chief minister and senior party leader Manish Sisodia hit back at the central government, alleging that it is "trying to paralyse the Chief Minister's office." "No government has stooped to that level," he told the media.

This is not the first time that a major row has broken out between the Delhi government and the central government. In December 2015, Kejriwal had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "coward and psychopath" after the probe agency raided the offices of the Delhi government and questioned Kumar. Enditem