Arvind Kejriwal Set to Resign as Delhi CM; AAP to Decide New Leader Tomorrow
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet Lieutenant Governor Vinay Saxena tomorrow i.e. on Tuesday and submit his resignation to him. The Lieutenant Governor has given CM Kejriwal time to meet him at 4:30 pm on Tuesday. Before this, there will be a meeting of the Aam Aadmi Party's Legislature Party at 11:30 am tomorrow in which the name of the new CM of Delhi will be finalized. This meeting will be held at CM Arvind Kejriwal's residence.
Many leaders including former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj reached CM Kejriwal's house to meet him. The meeting of the Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party has also started this evening. In this, the party's future strategy including the new Chief Minister is being discussed. Saurabh Bhardwaj said that the name of the CM has not been discussed yet. A decision on this will be taken in the Legislature Party meeting after Kejriwal's resignation.
After getting bail from the Supreme Court in the Delhi liquor policy case on September 13, CM Kejriwal announced his resignation from the post of Chief Minister on September 15. After the announcement of Kejriwal's resignation, many names have been discussed for the post of CM, in the names of Atishi Singh, Sunita Kejriwal and Saurabh Bhardwaj are being taken prominently.
The tenure of the Kejriwal government in Delhi is going to end in February 2025 and the AAP under the leadership of Kejriwal has been in power in Delhi since 2013. Assembly elections were held in Delhi on December 4, 2013, for a total of 70 seats, in which the BJP emerged as the largest party with 32 seats. However, it did not get a majority. The Aam Aadmi Party then got 28 and the Congress got 8 seats and Arvind Kejriwal took oath as the Chief Minister with the support of the Congress. Just 49 days later, the alliance of the two parties broke and Kejriwal's government fell.
After this, assembly elections were held again in Delhi on 7 February 2015 and Aam Aadmi Party won 67 seats. BJP was reduced to just three seats. Five years later, in the assembly elections of 8 February 2020, Aam Aadmi Party won 62 out of a total of 70 seats, while 8 seats went to BJP's account.