AAP on Sunday lauded its party supremo and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to resign from his post while calling it a rare display of morality and a defining moment in the country’s political history.
Senior AAP leader and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj accusing the BJP for mudslinging against Kejriwal and said, “For the last two years, the BJP has been mudslinging at Arvind Kejriwal and all the big leaders of the AAP that these people are thieves, they have committed corruption and earned crores of rupees.”
“But even after two years of investigation, the ED-CBI do not have the courage to even start the trial. These people (BJP) are not even able to start the case, the Supreme Court of the country itself is saying this,” he said.
He claimed that while granting bail to Kejriwal, the Supreme Court that even today CBI is acting like a ‘caged parrot’. Bharadwaj further added that in the history of the entire world, Arvind Kejriwal is the only Chief Minister who, after resigning from the post, is saying, "If I am honest, then vote for me, otherwise don't vote for me." The Delhi minister claimed, “Kejriwal is jeopardizing his entire career and saying that despite so much mudslinging and such adverse conditions, when the party has been thrown out of its office, many party leaders have been arrested, and the party has no money, even in such a situation, he is going among the people and saying, ‘If I am honest, then put me back in the Chief Minister's seat, otherwise don't.’”
The senior AAP leader said that in a time when Indian politics has become like a mud bath, such morality and purity are rarely seen. “This is unique to Arvind Kejriwal,” he affirmed.
Delhi Minister Atishi hailed the decision and said, “He built a party from zero against corruption and when that new party won, Kejriwal became the Chief Minister. Then, he resigned from his post only because he could not bring a law against corruption, which he had promised to the people of Delhi.”
She said that the AAP supremo cannot tolerate corruption, dishonesty and pocketing public money. “Today, the decision of Arvind Kejriwal's resignation has come from the same pain that maybe there is a Delhiite who thinks that Arvind Kejriwal has committed corruption,” she said.
“We have demanded early elections in Delhi. Elections are going to be held in Maharashtra in November, Delhi elections should be held simultaneously and in this election, the people of Delhi will give their mandate to their brother-son Arvind Kejriwal. The people of Delhi have full faith in Arvind Kejriwal,” Atishi asserted.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said that the BJP has failed in trying to stop AAP and Arvind Kejriwal. “Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested with the intention of ending AAP, but BJP failed in this. Now
He is going among the public, we will take certificates from the public. The people of Delhi will decide whether they are honest or guilty. I have full faith that Arvind Kejriwal will bring the certificate of the people with a huge majority and win the upcoming elections with full majority,” he said.
