An disagreeable state of affairs was witnessed on Thursday throughout the oath-taking ceremony of newly appointed Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena at Raj Niwas when BJP MP and former Union minister Harsh Vardhan walked out of the occasion, expressing unhappiness over seating association for the dignitaries.
The Chandni Chowk MP mentioned in a tweet that he was requested by an officer to vacate the seat, stating that it was reserved. After ready for quarter-hour, he left the venue when no seat was given to him, Vardhan mentioned.
“It was wrongly reported by the media that (I) left oath ceremony of LG because of not getting the desired seat. I sat where one officer seated me, another officer got me vacate that saying it was reserved. Waited for 15 minutes, that seat will be provided anywhere, left when it was not given,” Vardhan tweeted in Hindi.
He additionally regretted that regardless of being a Member of Parliament from Delhi, he couldn’t take part within the oath ceremony of the brand new Lt Governor and congratulated Saxena, saying Delhi will emerge as the very best metropolis below his tenure.
Earlier, Vardhan was seen leaving the venue, saying “I will write to Vinai Kumar Saxena ji that this is the arrangement,” in a video that went viral on social media.
“They have not provided any seat even for Parliament Members,” he was heard saying when requested what had occurred.
The Congress took to the event to launch a twin assault on the BJP and the media.
Rohan Gupta, the social media accountable for the Congress, shared a video on his Twitter deal with the place a visibly indignant Vardhan was seen leaving the venue, and when somebody requested, “What happened, sir?”, he replied, “They have not provided any seat for even Parliament Members.”
Saxena who addressed the media individuals after taking oath because the twenty second Lt Governor of Delhi, didn’t remark when requested about Vardhan leaving the swearing-in ceremony.
All the Members of Parliament from Delhi together with seven Lok Sabha MPs of BJP had been invited within the ceremony. North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari and West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma had been seen sitting in again rows of sofas for dignitaries.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”