Kejriwal urges Delhi LG to remove Health and Finance secretaries

Kejriwal urges Delhi LG to remove Health and Finance secretaries, alleges attempts to ‘paralyse system’ A day after discrepancies were highlighted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau in the tests conducted at Delhi government’s Mohalla clinic, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday (February 4) wrote to LG VK Saxena seeking the removal of Health and Finance secretaries. In a letter to the LG, Kejriwal alleged that Deepak Kumar, who is the Health Secretary, and Ashish Verma, who holds the Finance Secretary post, have “defied” the orders of their respective ministers. He alleged that Verma stopped the payments of medicines and lab tests among other things which paralysed the health system in the city.Kejriwal said that it is “extremely important” that the bureaucrats follow the orders of their ministers. The letter of the Chief Minister to the Delhi LG came a day after Anti-Corruption Branch’s preliminary inquiry of the Arvind Kejriwal government revealed that 65,000 ghost patients underwent pathological tests at the Mohalla clinics through private labs during 11 months of 2023. [Read more](/dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29t/aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuaW5kaWF0dm5ld3MuY29tJTJGZGVsaGklMkZhcnZpbmQta2Vqcml3YWwtYWxsZWdlcy1hdHRlbXB0cy10by1wYXJhbHlzZS1kZWxoaS1oZWFsdGgtc3lzdGVtLXVyZ2VzLWxnLXZrLXNheGVuYS10by1yZW1vdmUtaGVhbHRoLWZpbmFuY2Utc2VjcmV0YXJpZXMtYWNiLXJlcG9ydC1tb2hhbGxhLWNsaW5pYy1ianAtMjAyNC0wMi0wNC05MTUyMTA=)  We respect your privacy. If you are not interested in receiving further emails, please Click [here](/dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29t)