Kejriwal will remain Delhi CM: AAP leader Sandeep Pathak
AAP leader Sandeep Pathak on Wednesday said Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate last month, is the Delhi Chief Minister and will continue to hold the post, ruling out that he will resign. He alleged that part of the conspiracy of BJP was that they would first arrest Kejriwal and say he should resign and then try to break the AAP.
Talking to reporters in Amritsar after holding a meeting with party volunteers, Pathak said, «Kejriwal is CM and will remain the CM, and if need be he will run the government from inside the jail.»
To another question, Pathak, who is AAP national general secretary (organisation), said people of Punjab and country are emotional, they do not like any big person dominates another person and commits excesses.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the ED in connection with an excise policy-linked money laundering case.
«After Kejriwal's arrest, 10-15 per cent vote share (of AAP) increased in Delhi. BJP must be conducting survey, they must be seeing this. Sometimes, over smartness is harmful,» the AAP's Punjab affairs co-incharge said, targeting the ruling BJP at the Centre.
«As regards the question that Kejriwal is in jail, how will the party run, to this I want to say that the party will continue to run in the same way as it was being run earlier,» he said.
On AAP leaders like Kejriwal, Sanjay Singh and Manish Sisodia being jailed, he said that if honest persons are put in jail, who will join politics then. But everyone has faith in the judiciary, he added.
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