PM Should Resign If He Cannot Protect Delhi CM: Arvind Kejriwal

Kejriwal said AAP govt in Delhi did much more during its 3-year rule than what Modi did in 12 years as Gujarat CM.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (L) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday, 26 November, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign if he cannot ensure the CM's security, days after a man flung chilli powder at the Aam Aadmi Party chief inside the Delhi secretariat.

Speaking at the party headquarters, Kejriwal claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi did much more during its three-year rule than what Modi did in 12 years as Gujarat chief minister.

"The people of Delhi are proud of their honest chief minister. I want to ask the people of the country if they feel the same about their prime minister," Kejriwal said.

He hit out at the BJP-led NDA government over the alleged corruption in the Rafale fighter-jet deal, and over Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi fleeing the country.

Targeting the "Gujarat model" of development, the chief minister said, "I challenge... the AAP government in Delhi did much more than he (Narendra Modi) did in Gujarat in 12 years."

Later in the Assembly, Kejriwal asked the prime minister “to step down if he cannot ensure the Delhi chief minister's security.”

Speaking at the one-day special session of the Assembly, which was extended by a day till Tuesday, Kejriwal alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was behind the 20 November attack on him, as it was “baffled” by the “good work” done by his government.

"Narendra Modi should resign if he cannot protect Delhi's chief minister," Kejriwal said in the House, which had met to discuss the attack on him and the alleged deletion of names from the voters' list.

Speaking on a government resolution seeking amendments in the Constitution to bring the Delhi Police under the control of the Delhi government, Kejriwal said 95 percent policemen were good but “they are being made to do wrong things by the BJP”.

"If Delhi Police comes under the elected government of Delhi, it will start working for the good of the people," he asserted.

The resolution, moved by Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain and later adopted by the Assembly with voice votes, also stated that in view of such pending amendments, necessary steps should be initiated by the Centre to devolve certain powers to the elected government, so that it is in a position to have control over the Delhi Police.

“In the last three years, four attacks were made on me. These attacks are not on me, but on the people of Delhi instead... Modi ji is taking revenge from Delhiites for voting the AAP to power in the city.” 

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Kejriwal also hit out at Lt Governor Anil Baijal for "creating hurdles" in the functioning of the AAP dispensation.