Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena on Wednesday advised Chief Minister Atishi to convene a special session of the Delhi Assembly on Thursday or Friday to table the 14 Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports of India.
Calling the delay in submitting 14 reports a “deliberate lapse”, Saxena said the Delhi government had convened only five assembly sessions in five years.
“In the normal course, a legislature is convened for at least three sessions in a year but it is a travesty of legislative practice that the Delhi government convened only five sessions in five years,” he wrote.
The LG said that the third part of the fifth session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly was adjourned on December 4 but has not been adjourned yet.
“In view of the inordinate delay in this matter and the election of the Eighth Legislature, you may, on the advice of the Speaker, convene a special meeting of the House to present these CAG reports on December 19 or December 20. The assembly is about to come,’ he wrote. The LG said that normally, he does not indicate a time frame for convening a special session of the House at short notice, but the situation was exceptional as the term of the current assembly and the term of the elected government expired in February. 2025.
Earlier, Delhi BJP legislators had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court, seeking a direction to the AAP government to submit reports in the assembly.
Saxena also said that he was constantly writing to Atishi and his predecessor Arvind Kejriwal, reminding them of the criticality of this fundamental obligation.
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