NCP Chief Sharad Pawar with Delhi Chief Minister and AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha during a meeting, in Mumbai on May 25, 2023.
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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on May 25 met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar.
Mr. Kejriwal, who is on a two-day visit to Mumbai, was accompanied by Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann during his meeting with Mr. Pawar at Y B Chavan Centre in south Mumbai.
The top Aam Aadmi Party leader on May 24 met former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s Bandra home to seek support for AAP’s fight against the BJP-ruled Centre’s ordinance on control of services in Delhi.
On May 23, Mr. Kejriwal and Mr. Mann met West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata as part of their nationwide tour to garner support for the AAP’s fight against the Centre’s ordinance.
The Centre on May 19 promulgated an ordinance to create an authority for the transfer and posting of Group-A officers in Delhi, with the AAP government calling the move a deception with the Supreme Court verdict on control of services.
The ordinance, which comes a week after the Supreme Court handed over the control of services in Delhi excluding police, public order and land to the elected government, seeks to set up a National Capital Civil Service Authority for transfer of and disciplinary proceedings against Group-A officers from the DANICS cadre.
Transfer and postings of all officers of the Delhi government were under the executive control of the lieutenant governor before the May 11 verdict of the Supreme Court.
