Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would not have gone to the Lt. Governors doorstep to get the IAS officers undeclared strike called off had he wielded powers like his predecessor Sheila Dikshit.

In a letter to Modi, Kejriwal pointed out that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, had promised full statehood to Delhi but instead it has divested the Delhi government of all powers to transfer, suspend or take any action against the erring officers and has crippled the state government.