LG office denied me access to medicines: Pregnant AAP MLA

Sarita Singh, one of the AAP MLAs who camped for hours at the Raj Niwas yesterday, 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 pregnancy.
Refuting the charge, an official at the LG office said the MLA did not inform the Raj Niwas staff that she needed medicine or food.
He added that another woman AAP MLA had also left the LG office after feeling unwell.
Singh, the Rohtash Nagar MLA, was one of the 45 Aam Aadmi Party legislators who camped at Baijal's office yesterday, insisting that he cleared the files on mohalla clinics.

They left the Raj Niwas after six-and-a-half hours with an assurance that the LG would hold a meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the officers concerned today.
"I had not gone to accept any kind of hospitality, but my health started failing since I did not get the medicines," Singh wrote in a letter to Baijal.

She alleged that despite Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba and Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti repeatedly requesting the LG office staff, she was not allowed to bring medicines and food from her car.
"Your officers said this was being done on the orders of the LG that we should not be given anything. We made repeated requests for drinking water and tea and yet we were not given anything to eat," the MLA wrote in the letter to Baijal.

The official at the LG office said an appointment was granted to four AAP MLAs yesterday and Singh's name did not figure in that list.
"Another woman MLA had left the conference hall at the LG office after feeling unwell. Sarita Singh should also have done the same. She was not forced by the staff at the LG office to stay back for hours," he added.
An ambulance was always on standby at the Raj Niwas and both female and male doctors were present to attend to any medical emergency, the official said.
"After 6 pm, the office is closed. However, had she asked for something, our staff would definitely have made arrangements," he added.