New Delhi. After the announcement of resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, there has been a stir in Delhi politics. He has announced that he will resign from his post of Chief Minister after two days and will demand early elections in Delhi. Kejriwal said that until the people do not give him a certificate of honesty, he will not sit on the Chief Minister’s chair. Social worker Anna Hazare reacted to this decision of Arvind Kejriwal and said, “I had already forbidden Kejriwal from joining politics. I had told him not to go into politics, do social service, you will become a great man. We were together for many years, then I repeatedly refused him to go into politics. Social service gives happiness. Increase the happiness, but he did not have the words in his heart and today whatever was to happen has happened. Now what is in his heart, I do not know.”
VIDEO | “I told him since the beginning that you should not join politics but serve the people. We have worked together for many years and told him the same thing. He never listened to me and today what had to happen has happened,” says social activist Anna Hazare on Delhi CM… pic.twitter.com/o3WkRxfAGD
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Kejriwal demands, ‘Delhi elections should be held in November’
Kejriwal, after being released on bail from Tihar jail in an alleged corruption case related to the excise policy, said that a meeting of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs will be held soon to elect a new party leader as chief minister. He also said that elections are due in Delhi in February, but he is demanding that elections be held in the national capital along with Maharashtra in November.
‘I want to give agnipariksha’ – Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal said, “I will sit on the Chief Minister’s chair only when people give me a certificate of honesty. I want to give Agnipariksha after coming out of jail.” He also clarified that he and Manish Sisodia will become Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister only when the public declares them honest.
This announcement of Kejriwal can prove to be a big turning point in Delhi politics, and in the coming days, big changes can be seen in the electoral equations of Delhi.