New Delhi: A man threw ink on Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today while he emerged from his meeting with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung at the latter’s residence in the national capital.
“They are trying to divert people’s attention when the Aam Aadmi Party government is doing its work in Delhi,” Sisodia, whose red shirt bore the stain of the ink attack, told reporters.
The attacker, who has been identified as Brajesh, said he threw the ink to protest the absence of senior Delhi government officials from Delhi, when it was facing a severe dengue and chikungunya epidemic.
“The people of Delhi are hassled while these leaders are away on trips,” he told reporters.
Jung had summoned Sisodia from Finland where the senior Aam Aadmi Party leader, also Delhi’s Education Minister, was attending a conference on education. Sisodia returned from Finland as scheduled on Sunday despite the Lt Governor’s order to cut short his visit.
Jung’s summon had come in the wake of widespread criticism over senior Delhi government officials missing from the national capital.
Refuting the Opposition’s allegation that he was “holidaying” in Finland, Sisodia had said it was not a “sin” to study the schooling system of other countries to fix the problems in Delhi’s education system.
“I am not holidaying in Finland, I am on a tour to understand the education system here. Is coming to Finland a sin? Eating ice-cream a sin? Which book says that? I am working here for 26 lakh children for which Delhi Government is responsible. I am accountable to their parents,” he told a TV channel from Helsinki.
(Agencies)
