Why not pay IAS officers too based on calories: Kejriwal
New Delhi, May 1: Taking a dig at bureaucrats, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said IAS officers too should be paid on the basis of the calories they require if this rule was applicable to labourers.
Stressing that a labourer's minimum monthly wage in Delhi which is Rs 13,500 today was Rs 9,500 earlier, he said the committee which studied the wage hike decided that labourers needed 2,700 calories a day.
"I told them that a worker won't be paid based on calories. He is a human, not an animal... He has to educate his children, buy clothes... You can pay IAS officers based on their caloric needs, not labourers," he told a meeting of the Delhi Workers Conference here on the occasion of May Day.
Relations between the AAP government and the bureaucracy have been tense since the alleged beating up of Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by some Aam Aadmi Party MLAs.
Kejriwal said that a committee of officers as well as representatives of labourers and contractors was formed to study the matter of low wages but it didn't get Lt Governor Anil Baijal's approval.
"He (Baijal) complained that his permit was not asked for before forming it. We said we are asking now," the Chief Minister said, adding that after the Lt Governor's rejection, the same committee was formed with the same members as earlier.
"They held meetings and it took six more months to increase the (labourers') wages."
Attacking the Lt Governor, Kejriwal said that he has read about several revolutions, but never about such "Hitlershahi" (dictatorship).
He alleged that rejecting the proposal to set up the committee to study labourers' wages exposed Baijal's pride. "He was doing this because he was drunk on power. It made me angry but I was helpless."
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Delhi polls: AAP MP Sanjay Singh alleges BJP trying to get his wife's vote deleted
New Delhi: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Sunday alleged that the BJP was trying to get his wife's name deleted from the voters list of the New Delhi Assembly constituency ahead of the polls in February.
Addressing a press conference, the senior AAP leader accompanied by his wife Anita Singh alleged that the BJP was trying to delete the names of Purvanchali people settled in Delhi.
Singh and his wife belong to eastern Uttar Pradesh. Purvanchalis are people from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar settled in Delhi for decades, and form a significant chunk of voters in the city.
Singh claimed that two applications were filed on December 25 and 26 for deletion of his wife's name from the voters list of the New Delhi seat represented by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal.
He claimed that the BJP was trying to teach him a lesson for raising in the Rajya Sabha the issue of names of Purvanchali voters being deleted from the voters list in Delhi.
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal alleged that applications were filed for deletion of over 5,000 votes in New Delhi since mid December.
The BJP has alleged that the names of Rohingya and Bangladeshi people illegally staying in Delhi were added to the voters list at the AAP's behest.
The BJP has accused the AAP of helping the illegal immigrants with documents to use them as a vote bank in the elections.
