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CNN-IBN | Feb 15, 2014 at 10:42am IST
New Delhi: After 49 days as Delhi Chief Minister filled with high drama, protests, controversies and delivering on some parts of the Aam Aadmi Party manifesto, Arvind Kejriwal quit on Friday along with his Cabinet. The trigger the Jan Lokpal Bill not even being allowed to be tabled in the Delhi Assembly.
It had to happen, but over the past few days, it had become a question of when. Stepping down as Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal emerged as the champion of an anti-corruption law that could not be implemented because of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress. Kejriwal has now chosen to stay out of power and use it as a launchpad to national politics ahead of the 2014 elections. "Now we will take our fight from the Assembly to Parliament," Kejriwal said on Friday in the Delhi Assembly.
ALSO SEE Kejriwal quits with martyr's halo, Delhi government's fate uncertain
It was imminent, with the Lieutenant Governor and the Delhi government locking horns over the Jan Lokpal Bill's Constitutionality, the Centre and the Congress harped on why the Bill could not be brought into the Assembly as it had not got assent from the Home Ministry.
Seldom seen, the BJP was in tandem with the Congress in the Delhi Assembly. "I want to ask Mr Kejriwal if the Bill was not listed on the agenda, how did the the BJP stop it," asked BJP leader Harsh Vardhan in the House. "The Congres has supported the AAP government over the Lokpal. Our problem is with the method," said Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely.
ALSO SEE Arvind Kejriwal requests L-G to dissolve Delhi Assembly
Kejriwal called it match-fixing between the Congress and BJP as he had taken on Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Never before had the Delhi Assembly proceedings been watched so closely.
But the question is whether the Bill could have survived. "It's a still born Bill and as good as dead," said Former Additional Solicitor General KN Bhatt.
ALSO SEE How Kejriwal's last day as Delhi CM unfolded
But legalities aside, the political message had been sent. Arvind Kejriwal had come out as the man who wanted a strong anti-corruption law, who would go to any extent to get it cleared.
The Congress said he wanted to run away from his responsibilities. "Whatever happened today is very unfortunate but I think the way the AAP was proceeding it was clear that they did not show the zeal to fulfil all the promises they had made to the people of Delhi," said Congress leader Ajay Maken.
Activist Anna Hazare called Kejriwal's resignation unfortunate. "It is very unfortunate how under the pressure from the opposition Delhi CM Kejriwal had to resign. The two issues that he had raised about Lokpal and Mohalla Sabha are very important," he said.
His followers thronged the party headquarters and egged him to resign. Some call it orchestrated martyrdom, but his followers also went down cheering.
Arvind Kejriwal's tenure as the Delhi Chief Minister may have come to an end. But this end has the promise of a massive new beginning that is solely looking at the coming Lok Sabha elections.
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CNN-IBN | Feb 15, 2014 at 10:42am IST
New Delhi: After 49 days as Delhi Chief Minister filled with high drama, protests, controversies and delivering on some parts of the Aam Aadmi Party manifesto, Arvind Kejriwal quit on Friday along with his Cabinet. The trigger the Jan Lokpal Bill not even being allowed to be tabled in the Delhi Assembly.
It had to happen, but over the past few days, it had become a question of when. Stepping down as Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal emerged as the champion of an anti-corruption law that could not be implemented because of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress. Kejriwal has now chosen to stay out of power and use it as a launchpad to national politics ahead of the 2014 elections. "Now we will take our fight from the Assembly to Parliament," Kejriwal said on Friday in the Delhi Assembly.
ALSO SEE Kejriwal quits with martyr's halo, Delhi government's fate uncertain
It was imminent, with the Lieutenant Governor and the Delhi government locking horns over the Jan Lokpal Bill's Constitutionality, the Centre and the Congress harped on why the Bill could not be brought into the Assembly as it had not got assent from the Home Ministry.
Seldom seen, the BJP was in tandem with the Congress in the Delhi Assembly. "I want to ask Mr Kejriwal if the Bill was not listed on the agenda, how did the the BJP stop it," asked BJP leader Harsh Vardhan in the House. "The Congres has supported the AAP government over the Lokpal. Our problem is with the method," said Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely.
ALSO SEE Arvind Kejriwal requests L-G to dissolve Delhi Assembly
Kejriwal called it match-fixing between the Congress and BJP as he had taken on Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Never before had the Delhi Assembly proceedings been watched so closely.
But the question is whether the Bill could have survived. "It's a still born Bill and as good as dead," said Former Additional Solicitor General KN Bhatt.
ALSO SEE How Kejriwal's last day as Delhi CM unfolded
But legalities aside, the political message had been sent. Arvind Kejriwal had come out as the man who wanted a strong anti-corruption law, who would go to any extent to get it cleared.
The Congress said he wanted to run away from his responsibilities. "Whatever happened today is very unfortunate but I think the way the AAP was proceeding it was clear that they did not show the zeal to fulfil all the promises they had made to the people of Delhi," said Congress leader Ajay Maken.
Activist Anna Hazare called Kejriwal's resignation unfortunate. "It is very unfortunate how under the pressure from the opposition Delhi CM Kejriwal had to resign. The two issues that he had raised about Lokpal and Mohalla Sabha are very important," he said.
His followers thronged the party headquarters and egged him to resign. Some call it orchestrated martyrdom, but his followers also went down cheering.
Arvind Kejriwal's tenure as the Delhi Chief Minister may have come to an end. But this end has the promise of a massive new beginning that is solely looking at the coming Lok Sabha elections.
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