new delhi deputy chief minister manish sisodia on friday said lieutenant governor anil baijal has again rejected the delhi governments proposal to form a panel to investigate deaths due to oxygen shortage in the national capitalno one can deny that delhi grappled with an oxygen crisis in april and may during the second covid wave and also no one can deny that people died in the capital due to shortage of oxygen he said during an online press conferencewe had resubmitted a file for the constitution of a panel to probe deaths due to oxygen shortage the lg lieutenant governor is saying that there is no need for that sisodia saidthe deputy chief minister said that on one hand the centre has been asking states to tell how many people died due to oxygen shortage and on the other you have not been allowing us to investigate such deaths then how will states tell he askedthat means the centre wants us to give in writing that no death occurred due to the shortage of oxygen it will be a big lie sisodia saidhe claimed that the centre was responsible for oxygen mismanagement in april and may and whether it was deliberate or a mistake is a matter of investigationthe centre will have to accept that it was responsible for the oxygen crisis sisodia saidthe deputy chief minister had last week written to union health minister mansukh mandaviya that it is difficult to ascertain without a probe if there were any oxygenrelated deaths during the second covid wave and the delhi government is seeking fresh approval from the lg to form an expert panel for itthe delhi government had in june formed a fourmember expert committee to look into the deaths due to the shortage of oxygen during the second wave of covid19the committee was rejected by the lg