Deeply pained over alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary: Rajnath

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said he was "deeply pained" after an alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash during a meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and some AAP MLAs.

"I am deeply pained by the happenings involving the Chief Secretary of the Delhi Government. The civil servants should be allowed to work with dignity and without fear," Rajnath Singh tweeted.

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Earlier in the day, Delhi Government Employees Welfare Association (DGEWA) President D.N. Singh told reporters that the Chief Secretary was assaulted by AAP legislators at Kejriwal’s residence.

Saxena said that Prakash was called for a meeting around midnight on Monday where Kejriwal along with his deputy Manish Sisodia and 10 to 12 other MLAs were present

Saxena said that the meeting was on “some advertisements by the Delhi government which were in violation of the Supreme Court’s guidelines”.

Discussions were already on and the meeting was called to resolve it, Saxena said.

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Saxena said that when the Chief Secretary reached the meeting, he was “manhandled” and “mistreated”.

“For the past couple of years, officers have been insulted and humiliated in public,” she said. “The attack on the Chief Secretary is an attempt to intimidate the bureaucracy to toe the line by the powers that be.”

Saxena, however, refused to name who exactly attacked the Chief Secretary.