NEW DELHI: In a surprising move, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday that he will step down from his position within the next two days.
Addressing party workers after his release from Tihar Jail, The AAP national convener, who reached the party headquarters here on Sunday along with his wife Sunita to address party workers, said he would become chief minister and Manish Sisodia deputy CM “only when people say we are honest”.
The BJP hit back at Kejriwal and called his announcement to resign as “confession of crime”. BJP also questioned whether his decision to quit was due to internal conflicts within the Aam Aadmi Party.
The party also labeled Kejriwal’s move as a “drama” and accused him of playing an “emotional card” to make a virtue out of necessity, as the Supreme Court’s conditional bail in the excise policy graft case restricted him from entering his office and signing any file.
BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi expressed suspicion over Kejriwal’s timing, asking why he did not resign when he was arrested in connection with the scam.
“Him talking about resigning and demanding early polls in Delhi after coming out of jail on bail raises suspicion,” Trivedi said. “Could it be that there is some conflict going on within his party due to which he feels that it will be difficult to handle it now?”
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva criticized Kejriwal, stating that the people of Delhi have already given their verdict in the Lok Sabha polls, where the AAP failed to win any of the seven seats in the national capital.
“Dismiss the government. Let all Cabinet Ministers resign and conduct elections in Delhi in November. The People of Delhi will give a reply,” Sachdeva said.
Another BJP national spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla, accused Kejriwal of playing an “emotional card” and enacting a “resignation drama” as part of a plan to make his wife, Sunita Kejriwal, the chief minister. Poonawalla alleged that Kejriwal is attempting to create a “Manmohan Singh-like system” in Delhi, similar to what Sonia Gandhi did during the Congress party’s rule.
“The emotional and PR cards that he is playing are aimed at creating a Manmohan Singh-like system in Delhi as (former Congress president) Sonia Gandhi did,” the BJP leader said.
Addressing party workers after his release from Tihar Jail, The AAP national convener, who reached the party headquarters here on Sunday along with his wife Sunita to address party workers, said he would become chief minister and Manish Sisodia deputy CM “only when people say we are honest”.
The BJP hit back at Kejriwal and called his announcement to resign as “confession of crime”. BJP also questioned whether his decision to quit was due to internal conflicts within the Aam Aadmi Party.
The party also labeled Kejriwal’s move as a “drama” and accused him of playing an “emotional card” to make a virtue out of necessity, as the Supreme Court’s conditional bail in the excise policy graft case restricted him from entering his office and signing any file.
BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi expressed suspicion over Kejriwal’s timing, asking why he did not resign when he was arrested in connection with the scam.
“Him talking about resigning and demanding early polls in Delhi after coming out of jail on bail raises suspicion,” Trivedi said. “Could it be that there is some conflict going on within his party due to which he feels that it will be difficult to handle it now?”
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva criticized Kejriwal, stating that the people of Delhi have already given their verdict in the Lok Sabha polls, where the AAP failed to win any of the seven seats in the national capital.
“Dismiss the government. Let all Cabinet Ministers resign and conduct elections in Delhi in November. The People of Delhi will give a reply,” Sachdeva said.
Another BJP national spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla, accused Kejriwal of playing an “emotional card” and enacting a “resignation drama” as part of a plan to make his wife, Sunita Kejriwal, the chief minister. Poonawalla alleged that Kejriwal is attempting to create a “Manmohan Singh-like system” in Delhi, similar to what Sonia Gandhi did during the Congress party’s rule.
“The emotional and PR cards that he is playing are aimed at creating a Manmohan Singh-like system in Delhi as (former Congress president) Sonia Gandhi did,” the BJP leader said.
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