‘L-G office didn’t allow me food, medicines’

New Delhi: Sarita Singh, one of the AAP MLAs who camped  for hours at the Raj Niwas on Wednesday, has accused lieutenant governor Anil Baijal's office of not allowing her access to medicine and food, despite she being in the seventh month of her pregnancy.

Refuting the charge, an official at the LG office said Sarita Singh did not inform the Raj Niwas staff that she needed medicine or food.

He added that another woman AAP MLA had also left the L-G’s office after feeling unwell. Ms Singh, the Rohtash Nagar MLA, was one of the 45 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs who camped at Baijal's office on Wednesday insisting that he clear the files on mohalla clinics.

They left the Raj Niwas after six-and-a-half hours with an assurance that the L-G would hold a meeting with Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the officers concerned later on Thursday.

“I had not gone to accept any kind of hospitality, but my health started failing since I did not get the medicines,” Ms Singh wrote in a letter to Baijal.

She alleged that despite Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba and Malviya Nagar legislator Somnath Bharti repeatedly requesting the staff in the L-G office to allow her to bring food and medicines from her car, she was not allowed to do so 

“Your officers said this was being done on the explicit orders of the L-G that we should not be given anything. We have made repeated requests for drinking water and tea and yet we were not given anything to eat,” the legislator wrote in 
a letter to Baijal.