{"id":51695,"date":"2018-06-25T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/?p=51695"},"modified":"2018-06-26T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:54:48","slug":"why-can-not-all-parties-work-together-for-betterment-of-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/why-can-not-all-parties-work-together-for-betterment-of-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can-not all parties work Together\u00a0for\u00a0BETTERMENT of DELHI?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since last so many days, when ever one switched on the TV,most of the channels covering Delhi news,were also covering the `Waiting Room Dharna` by the CM Delhi &amp; three ministers of his cabinet. Footages of them lying sprawled on the sofas in the waiting lounge of the LG`s office were being beamed along with the news-reports, which were being supplemented by the interviews of the former Chief Minister Ms Shiela Dikshit, Mr Ajay Makan,the present President of Congress Committee of Delhi &amp; many others.The `responsible` representatives of BJP did not lag behind.Some of them, occupied the waiting lounge of CM office in `Dharna Formation`.Besides, news about whether IAS Officer`s Association of Delhi were on strike or not were being discussed\/debated about more vigorously by the learned Panelists being invited every evening by some of the prominent English Channels?!<\/p>\n<p>The hon`ble LG whose office was under seige, to my knowledge, did not come out with any plausible statement\/time bound to undo this official stalemate?! One of the MP of the CM`s party visited, as the reports said, PM`s house to seek PM`s\/home minister`s kind intervention. Later four CMs who came to attend `Niti-Ayog` meeting also took up the matter with the PM,seeking his expeditious intervention.<\/p>\n<p>One really failed to understand, what was happening?!<\/p>\n<p>All these people who have been elected by the electorate of Delhi\/installed at high positions-CM-Delhi,BJP elected members,LG et al ,IAS officers &amp; have been given all the perks &amp; privileges &amp; were\/are morally \/constitutionally duty bound to serve the people of Delhi in a judicious &amp; MATURE way. Were they doing it? They need to ask them selves this simple question. Couldn`t they sit together &amp; find a solution within hours?Didn`t they have conscience?Why they were on EGO trips? What were they trying to achieve\/prove? Their actions were SADDENING to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Didn`t they see on the TV channels the pathetic conditions of many Delhi- wallas who were\/ are fighting for two buckets of water in this scorching weather?<\/p>\n<p>Finally the Honble-Courts had to intervene. After their observation on two petitions on the matter` that ongoing strike could not be classified as strike`as one can not stage protest inside a house or office` The Delhi High Court also observed that Aam Aadmi Party[AAP] can not sit-in or dharna,inside LG`s residence &amp; questioned as to `who authorised the dharna~<\/p>\n<p>The sit-in protest was called off after NINE days &amp; as the news-reports has indicated that the Delhi Govt`s work was now resumed- with the flurry of meetings of the CM with the ministers &amp; the concerned IAS officials.<\/p>\n<p>But the BIG questions that must be coming to everyone`s mind could be<\/p>\n<p>`Why Delhiites were taken for a ride?<\/p>\n<p>Was it a responsible act?<\/p>\n<p>What did it achieve after all?<\/p>\n<p>If at all,it happened, why it took NINE days to resolve? &amp; has it actually been resolved?<\/p>\n<p>Why all the other authorities stationed in Delhi,remained mute spectators?<\/p>\n<p>What messages it has sent to the young officers\/governance-system?<\/p>\n<p>What about losses\/inconveniences\/discomforts caused due to dharna-march to PM`s house\/lathi charge on march-participants,some of them ,may be mis-led innocents et al?<\/p>\n<p>Can`t we be all RESPONSIBLE?<\/p>\n<p>What are the various parties trying to prove?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50236 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vijay-Saluja-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vijay K. Saluja<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDirector<br \/>\nGiraffe Heroes India<br \/>\nwww.giraffe.org\/global\/india<br \/>\nSenior Fellow<br \/>\nInstitute of Social Sciences,New Delhi<br \/>\nwww.issin.org<br \/>\nPast President,IIT Delhi Alumni Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last so many days, when ever one switched on the TV,most of the channels covering Delhi news,were also covering the `Waiting Room Dharna` by the CM Delhi &amp; three ministers of his cabinet. Footages of them lying sprawled on the sofas in the waiting lounge of the LG`s office were being beamed along with the news-reports, which were being supplemented by the interviews of the former Chief Minister Ms Shiela Dikshit, Mr Ajay Makan,the present President of Congress Committee of Delhi &amp; many others.The `responsible` representatives of BJP did not lag behind.Some of them, occupied the waiting lounge of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,78,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-awareness-series","category-better-india","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51698,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51695\/revisions\/51698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}