Won’t resign as Delhi CM as it would set precedent for BJP to target Opposition: Arvind Kejriwal
The Aam Aadmi Party chief said he could contest the Assembly elections and become the chief minister while in jail as he had not been convicted.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that he would not resign from his post as this would give the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government a “free hand” to target more Opposition leaders, PTI reported.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi liquor policy case. He was released from Delhi’s Tihar jail on May 10 on interim bail granted by the Supreme Court. The court has directed him to surrender on June 2, a day after voting for the Lok Sabha elections ends.
In an interview with the news agency on Wednesday, the Aam Aadmi Party national convener said: “If I resign, it will set such a precedent that they will arrest West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee someday and ask her to resign…they will also arrest Tamil Nadu Chief Minister [MK] Stalin and ask him to resign.”
“So wherever BJP loses elections, the chief ministers of Opposition-ruled states will be arrested,” said Kejriwal. He added that the Centre would then move to topple the state governments, which is “very dangerous for democracy”.
He said that he had voluntarily resigned as the chief minister in 2013. But he did not give up the post after his arrest “deliberately as it is part of my struggle”.
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