“Almost about the claims in numerous sections relating to the flag hoisting on August 15, it’s clarified that the LG secretariat isn’t in receipt of any such communication in any respect,” a Raj Niwas official advised information company PTI.
The Delhi authorities’s Independence Day operate is historically held at Chhatrasal Stadium, the place the chief minister addresses the gathering.
‘Make Atishi CM if you need her to hoist flag’
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, strongly condemned Kejriwal’s letter to the lieutenant governor, saying that it “proves” the AAP and its leaders are “anarchists” and can stay so. Sachdeva identified that based on the nationwide flag protocol, solely the chief minister is permitted to hoist the flag within the states.
“Maybe, the framers of the Structure and the nationwide flag protocol by no means imagined that someday, there could be a cussed chief minister who wouldn’t resign even after going to jail,” the BJP Delhi president mentioned.
“If the chief minister is unable to hoist the flag, then historically, the lieutenant governor of Delhi will hoist the flag. From 1991 to 1993 and in 2014, when there was no chief minister in Delhi, the lieutenant governor hoisted the flag,” he added.
Sachdeva additional mentioned that if the Delhi CM needs Atishi to hoist the flag, he ought to belief her and resign, permitting her to take the oath as chief minister.
Kejriwal is presently in Tihar jail resulting from his involvement in a CBI case associated to the alleged excise coverage rip-off. The Supreme Courtroom has granted him interim bail within the cash laundering case linked to the excise coverage, which is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.
