Lt Governor Suspends Delhi Health Minister's Aide Amid Hospital Fire Row
NDTV
Action against Dr RN Das (and, by implication, the Delhi Health Ministry) comes as the LG and the AAP trade blows over a horrific fire Saturday at a private children's hospital.
A fresh chapter was written Wednesday in the persistent and bitter row between Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena and the ruling AAP, after the former suspended and urged disciplinary proceedings against a senior member of Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj's office. Dr RN Das, an Officer on Special Duty, has been called out over alleged "misconduct with regard to (an) unauthorised and illegal" nursing home.
Mr Saxena has claimed Dr Das - when he was Medical Superintendent of the Delhi government's Nursing Home Cell - kept the Jyoti Clinic and Nursing Home running by delaying renewal of its licence post-2014.
The LG - who has had multiple fiery run-ins with the ruling AAP and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal - cited a civil complaint against the nursing home - that it has been running despite a license called in 2018.
