Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tendered an apology to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Congress leader Kapil Sibal.
Reacting to Arvind Kejriwal's apology to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Congress leader Kapil Sibal, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said the AAP government do not have time to visit courts and they wanted to concentrate on the welfare of the people.
"We will apologise to people who we have hurt. We're here to serve the people, we do not have the time to go to courts for such issues. We're here to build schools & hospitals for the welfare of people," Sisodia was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
On Monday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tendered an apology to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, according to ANI. In a letter he wrote: “I have nothing personal against you. I regret the same. Let us put the incident behind us and bring the court proceedings to a closure."
Kejriwal and Nitin Gadkari have filed a joint application seeking to withdraw the defamation case in Delhi's Patiala Court. The application comes after Kejriwal submitted a letter regretting making defamatory remarks against Gadkari.
Kejriwal also apologised to Congress leader Kapil Sibal. Sibal's son Amit had filed a defamation suit against Kejriwal for alleging that the then union minister had a conflict of interest in seeking to revise a tax demand on telecom major Vodafone.
Sibal has already accepted Kejriwal's apology and said it was time to move ahead.
"Kejriwal Ji and (Manish) Sisodia ji have accepted that the allegations they had put on me and my son in a press conference few years ago were baseless. They've apologised for the same today. He has apologised for what he did everything is forgotten now, we will move ahead," Sibal told. ANI.
Earlier, Kejriwal's letter to former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia drove a wedge between the party's state and national units with Punjab AAP MLAs demanding that the state unit ought to have immunity.
Kejriwal's apology to a SAD leader for accusing him of drugs trade pushed the party's Punjab unit into a crisis as the state leadership contemplated breaking away and forming a separate unit, saying the "meek surrender" was painful and very unfortunate.
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