The most transparent and honest party AAP's leader Arvind Kejriwal has delivered justice by ordering removal of "Delhi Commission on Women" chief Barkha Singh, as she dared to challenge his authority by asking for resignation of law minister Somnath Bharti .
AAP govt moves to replace DCW chief, who cried foul against the Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti,who stopped four Ugandan women and took them to AIIMS and made a strip search and forced them to give urine samples for a drug test. Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Barkha Singh met Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung seeking a First Information Report against the minister.
DCW Chairperson Barkha Singh slammed the AAP government for taking steps towards her removal,and branded Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers as “dictators” and accused them of acting on their whims.
Singh clarified,“I am holding a constitutional post and the Delhi government cannot remove me. I have handed over a rule book of DCW to the LG so that he gets to know that the government cannot remove the chairperson from the post,” . She said that "Jung had assured her, that he would look into the matter and go through the rule book".
The chairperson also threatened to take legal recourse if she is removed by the AAP government and said,“Kejriwal, his Ministers have become dictators. They are acting according to their whims and fancies,”. She said,“I am not going to step down as the chairperson of DCW because I still have one year and four months left in my tenure. However, if they remove me, violating rules, I will take help of the law,”.
On being asked about AAP government’s claim that she was politician, so she cannot continue as DCW chief, Bharti said as per DCW act, there is nothing written in it that a political leader cannot hold the post.
The facts remain that on January 16, Bharti led a raid on an alleged drug-and-prostitution ring in Khirki Extension in south Delhi after receiving “complaints from residents”. Flagging down a police van, Bharti stopped four Ugandan women and took them to AIIMS and made a strip search and forced them to give urine samples for a drug test. The women have since recorded statements before the police. Bharti also quarrelled with police who, citing lack of a warrant, refused to conduct a search on a house he suspected was a den of vice.
They recorded their statements before a metropolitan magistrate and further said, "they were slapped, molested, threatened and subjected to racist slurs". The police had registered a case against unidentified people, would now frame charges against Bharti.
INDIA HONEST is not surprised with the new developments, that has taken place in AAP's Delhi , as the move of DCW chief of calling Somnath's resignation , had hurt the CM Kejriwal , where it hurts most ,to the arrogance and power of AAP's myth.Was it aam admi power or the new born leader's arrogance that called for removal of an appointed person Barkha Singh from a constitutional post on personal whims.