DELHI LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ANIL BAIJAL RESIGNS CITING ‘PERSONAL REASONS’

(The Quiver): Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has submitted his resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind citing personal reasons, news agency ANI reported on Wednesday.

A retired civil servant, Mr Baijal had taken over as Lieutenant Governor in December 2016 following the abrupt resignation of his predecessor Najeeb Jung.

The role of Lieutenant Governor had been at the heart of an all-out power tussle between Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and the BJP, which rules at the centre for years until a landmark Supreme Court judgement that spelled out their powers more clearly. 

Baijal is a 1969 batch AGMUT cadre, short for Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory, IAS officer. He has served in Delhi as a former vice-chairman of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).