Chief Secretary case: Kejriwal to face conspiracy charge, AAP slams conspiracy
New Delhi, June 28: Delhi Police is likely to charge Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia with conspiracy in the alleged assault of Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by two AAP MLAs, said police sources. The ruling AAP slammed the case as politically motivated.
According to the police sources, the charge sheet will "most probably" be filed at Tis Hazari Court here in the first week of July.
Terming it a politically motivated case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said that this is a conspiracy to defame the Delhi Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister.
"Delhi Police has been planting all kinds of fictitious stories since the last four months. The truth is that a conspiracy was hatched by the police and Prakash to defame CM Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in a bid to destabilise the elected state government," AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj told the media.
Prakash, who had gone to attend a late night "emergency" meeting called by Kejriwal at his residence in Civil Lines on February 19, had alleged that he was assaulted by Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Amanutullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal.
The timing of the CCTV cameras installed at Kejriwal's residence was tampered, according to the police.
The two MLAs were arrested a day after the allegation was made and were later released on bail.
Kejriwal and Sisodia were interrogated separately by police last month for calling the meeting late in the night and for the "tampering" with the cameras.
Bhardwaj however claimed that no incidence of violence took place on the night of February 19 at the Delhi CM's residence and that "CCTV tampering allegation has proved to be false".
"Delhi Polce has been unable to answer a simple question that if the Chief Secretary was assaulted, then how was it that in the CCTV footage he was seen walking normally out of the CM residence.
"The Chief Secretary - a person with close links with senior BJP leaders - instead of going to the police, went straight to Raj Niwas at 12.30 p.m., where the Lt. Governor, along with Delhi Police Commissioner were already waiting for him to implicate the CM and dozen AAP MLAs in a fabricated case," Bhardwaj alleged.
He further went on to say that it is a matter of shame for the the Delhi Police has allowed itself to be a "spineless political arm of the Central government".
"AAP won't be cowed down by such repressive measures and will strongly contest the bogus police chargesheet as and when it will be filed in the court.
"The party will expose the conspiracy against itself before the people," he said.
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Vivek Ramaswamy indicates massive government job cuts in US
Washington, Nov 16: Entrepreneur-turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy, who along with Tesla owner Elon Musk has been nominated in-charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, has indicated a massive cut in federal government jobs in the United States.
"Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass deportations of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the DC bureaucracy. That, too, is how we're going to save this country," Ramaswamy, an Indian American, said at an event in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Thursday.
"I don't know if you've got to know Elon yet, but he doesn't bring a chisel. He brings a chainsaw. We are going to be taking it to that bureaucracy. It's going to be a lot of fun,” he said.
“We've been taught to believe over the last four years that we have become a nation in decline, that we're at the end of the ancient Roman Empire. All we have is to fight over the scraps of some shrinking pie. I don't think we have to stay as that nation in decline. I think with what happened last week, we're back to being a nation in our ascent. A nation whose best days are actually still ahead of us,” Ramaswamy said.
"It is going to be morning in America, the start of a new dawn, the start of a country where our kids are going to grow up and we're going to tell them and mean it, that you get ahead in the United States again with your own hard work and commitment and dedication, that you're free to speak your mind at every step of the way, that the best person gets the job regardless of their colour," he said.
Meanwhile, Musk and Ramaswamy announced that they will livestream every week to update the American public on the progress of the works by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
"Our goal is to shave the size of government and to be as transparent as possible with the public. Weekly 'Dogecasts' will start soon," Ramaswamy said.
“DOGE's job is to create a government of a size and scope that our Founders would be proud of. Elon Musk and I look forward to fulfilling the mandate given to us by President Trump,” he said.
Ramaswamy, however, argued that too much bureaucracy means less innovation and higher costs. "That’s a real problem with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and countless other 3-letter agencies," he said, adding, "They are utterly agnostic to how their daily decisions stifle new inventions and impose costs that deter growth."
"We are assembling the brightest minds in the country. This is the equivalent of a modern Manhattan Project. I think the major problem holding our country back is a federal bureaucracy. Target that cost, save the money, restore self-governance," Ramaswamy said.
