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Amit Bhardwaj

‘Modi sacked Marlena, who made govt schools better’

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government has received another gift from the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Through an order issued by the Union Home Ministry, the Centre on Tuesday sacked nine advisors to the Delhi government. One of them was Atishi Marlena, the advisor to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. At the helm of bringing positive changes in the Delhi education system, Marlena, AAP said, was drawing a monthly salary of just Re 1.

The Union home ministry in its letter to Delhi Government’s general administration department (GAD) on April 10 said the nine appointees were not on the list of posts approved for Delhi’s CM and ministers.

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