Right ahead of the MCD polls on 23 April, a bailable arrest warrant has been issued against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by an Assam Court after he failed to appear before it on Monday in a defamation case over his tweet about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Kejriwal, in a Twitter post on 15 December last year, had said: “Modiji has studied up to Class 12. His degrees after that are fake.”
Assam BJP leader Surya Rongphar had filed a defamation case against him.
According to an NDTV report, Kejriwal had requested the court to excuse him and his lawyer said that he “cannot leave Delhi to attend the court hearing because of the civic election and the nature of his work because he is Chief Minister of Delhi”.
The request was not accepted as the court had cited he failed to appear on 30 January.
The court has set 8 May as the next date of hearing.
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