Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal resigns

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New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced his decision to resign after his party failed to get majority support in tabling his pet anti-graft bill in the assembly.

He was expected to call on Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and hand over his government’s resignation after a meeting of his Cabinet.

After a daylong drama in the Delhi assembly, Kejriwal first tabled the contentious Jan Lokpal Bill and later declared that he had not after the vociferous opposition forced voting on whether the bill should be introduced. Kejriwal’s government polled a mere 27 votes in its favour while 42 lawmakers voted to veto tabling of the bill.

An embarrassed Kejriwal later addressed the assembly amid demands of the opposition to quit and blamed the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress party — which helped him form the government on December 28 by extending its outside support. He accused the two parties of forming an alliance after the Kejriwal government action against the Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani.

“This appears to be our last session in the Delhi assembly. I will consider myself fortunate if I have to sacrifice the chief minister’s post and my life to eradicate corruption … we are willing to sacrifice our government and we will take this revolution to parliament,” Kejriwal said in his address, dropping broad hints that he had made up his mind to quit and go to upcoming general elections portraying himself as a victim of the BJP-Congress nexus in his fight against corruption.

“We will fight on the streets. We are not here to save our government, but save the nation from corruption,” Kejriwal added…. see more

source: gulfnews

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