New Delhi: Delhi Assembly Secretariat on Tuesday wrote to former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and ex-speaker Ram Niwas Goel regarding the findings of the privileges committee in connection with the ‘phansi ghar’ issue.The committee report said that Kejriwal, Goel, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and ex-deputy speaker Rakhi Birla had committed contempt of the house due to their “deliberate non-appearance” before it in connection with the ‘phansi ghar’ issue.
A room of the British-era Assembly building was inaugurated as ‘phansi ghar’ by Kejriwal on Aug 9, 2022. The issue was raised in the assembly after BJP came to power last year. Speaker Vijender Gupta claimed that the so-called ‘phansi ghar’ was actually a “tiffin room” used for distributing meals and presented a 2011 map of the architectural design of the assembly building to substantiate his claim. PTI
