LG asks Sisodia to return to Delhi immediately after chikungunya outbreak

17 September, New Delhi

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung today asked Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to immediately return from Finland, where he has gone on a study tour, in view of rising deaths in the city due to chikungunya, sources said.

Sources said that the LG has asked him to return immediately in view of rise in cases of dengue and chikungunya in Delhi during the last few days.Sisodia, who is also the Education minister, has gone to Finland along with officers of Education department to study the education system of that country.

They said all the officers have been asked to return to Delhi immediately.Amid opposition criticism that he was holidaying in Finland, Sisodia said he had gone there to study the schooling system of other countries to fix the problems in Delhi’s education system.

“Learning from across the world is not a sin. It’s a sin to defame an educational tour as a ‘holiday’. I’m in Finland. We need to learn a lot from their education system, the best in the world (sic),” he said in a series of tweets.