Accusing the AAP-Delhi government of being anti-Dalit, former Delhi Social Welfare Minister Raaj Kumar Anand Thursday called on L-G VK Saxena with a memorandum asking for his intervention in addressing “critical issues” concerning the welfare of the “poorest of the poor” in the city. The AAP government did not offer a comment on Anand’s allegations. The former Minister for Labour, Social Welfare and SC/ST/OBC, Anand underlined that he had resigned in the wake of “prevalent excessive corruption” in the government which led to the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The Patel Nagar MLA had announced his resignation both from the Delhi Cabinet as well as the party on April 10, accusing it of being “mired in the quicksand of graft” and “ignoring the Dalit community”. “Serving as minister. I came face to face with the fraud being run in the name of the poor of Delhi and the incessant lies that were peddled.,” Anand alleged, accusing the government of charges ranging from flouting reservation norms for SC/ST/OBC citizens to overlooking them when it came to appointments on various posts. Despite the AAP’s poll promise of regularising contractual employees, especially safai karamcharis who were mostly Dalits, Anand alleged nothing had been done in this direction.
