Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo)
Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was released from jail on bail in the Delhi Liquor Policy case, has taken a big step. He has announced his resignation from the post of Delhi Chief Minister after two days and has demanded early elections. This is being considered as a big bet by Arvind Kejriwal to get the party and Delhi out of the political paralysis after the defeat in all the seats of Delhi in the Lok Sabha elections.
After being released on bail in a corruption case, Arvind Kejriwal said he is ready to face the litmus test and will go to the people’s court only after proving his innocence. Let us understand the whole political phenomenon and know why Arvind Kejriwal did not resign as the Chief Minister of Delhi after being arrested in a corruption case and is now ready to resign after being released from jail?
While Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren had resigned before the arrest. What has happened now is that Arvind Kejriwal has not only announced his resignation after being released from jail but has also talked about holding early elections in Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal has any compulsion behind his resignation announcement or does he have a gameplan?
Kejriwal was forced by the conditions of the Supreme Court
Let us tell you that as a condition of bail, the Supreme Court has barred the Chief Minister from entering the office and signing any official file. Although the Supreme Court has released Arvind Kejriwal on bail, it has also paralyzed him politically and administratively. Arvind Kejriwal government is completely stuck in political and constitutional crisis and Arvind Kejriwal has played this trump card to come out of this constitutional crisis and save the government.
He also mentioned the situation in the Supreme Court in his speech and said that people feel that he cannot function as CM and therefore he has decided to go to the people’s court. On the other hand, because Arvind Kejriwal cannot sign any government file. In such a situation, they cannot even send a recommendation to the Lt. Governor to convene a legislative session.
Try to empathize
Political analyst and senior journalist Deepak Rastogi says Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail, but his government is mired in a constitutional crisis. Arvind Kejriwal has taken this step to come out of such a situation. Despite being jailed on corruption charges, he did not resign as Chief Minister, but now he has announced his resignation and is demanding early elections. With this he wants to send a message to the people that he has no connection with the post of Chief Minister and by this step he wants to win the sympathy of the people of Delhi.
The allegation of sending him to jail has no bearing on the Lok Sabha elections
Arvind Kejriwal was released on bail during the Lok Sabha elections. During the election campaign, he attacked the BJP and alleged that the BJP was deliberately trying to jail him and that the BJP could not jail him if the public made him more powerful by voting for him. Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal has no effect on the people of Delhi. BJP again won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and Arvind Kejriwal’s bid failed.
Arvind Kejriwal and his party suffered a major defeat in all the seven seats in Delhi in the Lok Sabha elections. In the Lok Sabha elections The Aam Aadmi Party contested 22 seats in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Assam, but managed to win only three seats in Punjab. Although there was an increase of one seat compared to 2014 and 2019, Arvind Kejriwal was claiming. Nothing like that happened.
Trying to brighten the image before assembly elections
Now there are assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu Kashmir. Congress and Aam Aadmi Party are facing each other once again in the Haryana assembly elections. Along with this these parties also have competition with BJP. Deepak Rastogi says that the votes of both Congress and Aam Aadmi Party are equal. In such a situation no party wants to give up its vote bank. In such a situation, Arvind Kejriwal is trying to brighten his image in the Haryana elections by playing the trick of resigning from the post of CM.
Kejriwal, surrounded by BJP’s allegations, backfires
On the other hand, BJP has also termed Kejriwal’s resignation announcement as a PR stunt. BJP leaders say that the Aam Aadmi Party is totally mired in corruption and Arvind Kejriwal was presenting himself as an honest leader. Now people are not trusting him. People across the country have realized that he is wearing a mask of corruption under the guise of honesty and thus he is trying to enhance his image. Earlier Sonia Gandhi also made Manmohan Singh the Prime Minister and later ran the government and now Arvind Kejriwal is also trying to do the same, but the people rejected the Aam Aadmi Party in the Lok Sabha elections and now they will reject it in the Assembly as well. Election too.
