I will resign, this is my agnipariksha, says Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he would resign after two days and would demand early polls in Delhi while vowing not to sit in the CMrsquos chair till people give him a ldquocertificate of honestyrdquoKejriwal who was released on bail from Tihar on Friday in the excise policy graft case said he would hold a meeting of AAP MLAs in the next couple of days and a party leader would take over as chief ministerldquoDelhi elections are due in February but I demand that elections in the national capital be held in November with Maharashtrardquo he saidldquoI will only sit on CMrsquos chair after people give me a certificate of honesty Want to give lsquoagnipariksharsquo after coming out of jailrdquoThe AAP national convener said ldquoI will become chief minister and Manish Sisodia deputy CM only when people say we are honestAlleging the BJP tried to prove him corrupt Kejriwal said the saffron party cannot provide good schools and free electricity to people because they are corrupt ldquoWe are honestrdquo he assertedldquoThey slap false cases against nonBJP chief ministers If they are arrested I urge them not to resign but run the government from jailrdquo the Delhi CM saidReferring to him quitting the chief ministerrsquos post in 2014 over the Jan Lokpal Bill just 49 days after assuming power Kejriwal said ldquoI resigned then for my ideals I do not have a lust for powerrdquolsquoBJP drafted fantasy called liquor scamrsquoLashing out at the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that the BJP drafted a fantasy story called lsquoliquor scamrsquo and those stories were proved wrong in the Supreme Court ldquoThe BJP drafted a fantasy story named the lsquoLiquor Scamrsquo The Supreme Court gave bail to Arvind Kejriwal and ended that story It is a happy ending for us and a sad ending for the BJPPR stunt BJP on Kejriwal lsquoresignationrsquoAs soon as Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced his intent to resign as Delhi CM in two days BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari termed it a ldquoPR stuntrdquo and said he is doing this to restore his imageBhandari further said that Kejriwal wants to apply Sonia Gandhirsquos model where she made Manmohan Singh a dummy Prime Minister and ran the government from behind the scenes ldquoThis is a PR stunt of Arvind Kejriwal He has understood that his image among the people of Delhi is not of an honest leader but of a corrupt leader today Aam Aadmi Party is known across the country as a corrupt party Under his PR stunt he wants to restore his imagerdquo Bhandari saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever