NEW DELHI: Amid an ongoing tussle with the AAP government, lieutenant governor V K Saxena on Friday said that the “dignity of speech” had been shattered in the last few days but asserted that relations with the government will remain intact.
Replying to a question on his “bitter relations” with the AAP government, Saxena gave a poetic analogy of a tree and wind and said: “Roz girati hai patte merey, phir bhi hawaon se tootate nahi hain rishte merey (It makes my leaves fall every day, but still my relations do not break with it).”

The LG was with CM Arvind Kejriwal and Speaker Ram Niwas Goel while replying to the query. “It’s our government, how can our relations deteriorate,” he added.

The LG and the AAP government have had a rocky relationship and there have been at least a dozen face-offs between him and the elected dispensation have taken place ever since Saxena assumed office as the city’s first non-bureaucrat constitutional head.