Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has hit back at his Social Welfare Minister Sandeep Kumar on Twitter. Sandeep Kumar's plan to start off on an 'anti-begging drive' were halted when the Chief Minister took to twitter to vent out his feeling, calling it an "inhuman" and "futile" exercise. "Most inhuman n futile exercise that social welfare dept cud think of. Am directing them to stop it immediately," Kejriwal tweeted. It is being reported that immediately after Kejriwal's outburst on the microblogging site in the morning, Kumar is said to have directed his team to wind up the proposal.

Social Welfare Minister Sandeep Kumar reportedly had plans to launch a drive on Monday to pick up beggars and move them to a state-run home. Social activists have said that the plan lacks any merit because it offers no rehabilitation prospects. According to sources Kumar had not even consulted the Secretary of the department before charting out the roadmap of the drive to make Delhi 'beggar-free', that was to begin on Monday. The minister had formed ten teams which were tasked with picking up beggars from across the city and producing them before a metropolitan magistrate.