Only 48 hours are remaining for the return of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently in the eye of the political storm in the national capital.
Only 48 hours are remaining for the return of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently in the eye of the political storm in the national capital. Kejriwal has been missing in action since March 5, neatly escaping the his war with former comrades Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, who were ousted from the party's Parliamentary Affairs Committee on March 4. Kejriwal is undergoing treatment for high sugar levels and cough at Bengaluru's Jindal Naturecure Institute for naturopathy.
Meanwhile, his party has stopped scrambling for cover to try and smoothen things over for his much awaited return. Under attack for the past few days after evidence emerged of Kejriwal trying to poach Congress MLAs to form government in Delhi, last year, the party has been trying to spin the stings in its favour. First there was the telephone recording between former AAP MLA Rajesh Garg and Kejriwal where the two discuss how to break away Congress MLAs, then another by AAP minority wing member Shahid Azad where Kejriwal is purportedly saying "Muslims are watching that it is only AAP that can stop the juggernaut of Modi."
While some AAP supporters have defended Kejriwal saying that he doesn't give tickets on the basis of religion. Meanwhile AAP leaders admitted on Thursday to have approached the Congress MLAs to form a government. The desperate hunt of AAP for support in 2014 was recast into a noble mission to stop the BJP. A senior AAP leader recently told dna that in politics they could not be "untouchable". In 2014, AAP were fighting for their very existence. If BJP had come to power in Delhi, they would have finished AAP.
On Friday it emerged that senior AAP leader Ashish Khetan had met Congressman Ahmed Patel post the Lok Sabha debacle in 2014. Though Khetan remained unavailable for comment and Patel said that he could not remember the meeting, sources high up in the party said that it was highly possible that many such meetings took place, as Khetan and Patel had been close for years.
Kejriwal's absence from Delhi was seen as a political tactic, to escape immediate ugliness. As matters refuse to die down, snowballing everyday, it remains to be seen how the Aam Aadmi's leader will come out clean this time. Much now hinges on the crucial National Council meeting on March 28, where this internal battle will either blow up further, or just might be resolved.
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