AAP govt wins trust vote, Kejriwal says no party MLA defected
trust vote in the 70-member Delhi Assembly with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claiming that his party has emerged as the biggest challenger to the BJP, which «wants to crush it by any means». Kejriwal, who is also the national convener of the AAP, won the confidence motion with the support of 54 MLAs and said no legislator of his party defected.
Out of 62 AAP MLAs in the Delhi Assembly, 54 were present in the House during the trust vote, two were in jail, two others were unwell, three were out of station and one was not present due to a wedding in his family, the AAP national convener said.
Kejriwal had moved the motion of confidence in the Assembly on Friday and accused the BJP of trying to poach his party's MLAs.
Since seven of the eight BJP legislators were suspended for the remainder of the session for allegedly interfering during the Lieutenant Governor's address on Thursday, Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri was the only opposition MLA who was present in the House during the trust vote.
He said there was no need for the confidence motion as the AAP government enjoys a majority in the House. «But the chief minister has lost the confidence of the people of Delhi,» Bidhuri said.
«There are many serious allegations of corruption against the government and it has failed on many fronts. Kejriwal and his minister Atishi are not cooperating with a police enquiry on the BJP's complaint over their MLA poaching allegations,» the leader of the opposition said in the House.
On his part, the chief minister
