Kejriwal said that AAP worked “against BJP” during the Bihar Assembly polls and supported the chief ministerial candidature of Nitish Kumar.
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On Sunday, event in Dwarka area kicked off with a cycle rally led by chief minister Kejriwal while Members of Indian Administrative Services (IAS) and Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (DANICS) Officers’ Association also participated in the cycle rally. “Now, by huggging “corrupt” Lalu, he has broken our trust”. Don’t run after elections. People ask if the AAP is in race for 2019?
‘Shaking hands with Lalu and hugging him is not okay, ‘ Hazare told reporters at his native village Ralegan Siddhi in Ahmednagar district. But, after spending two years in politics, he has been exposed. We are against his record of corruption and we’ll always oppose it. We are against his dynasty politics. Expelled AAP leader Yogendra Yadav described it as a shameful act and said that it was not mere hugging, but the defeat of ideals to form a bloc against BJP. “All indications are that you are going to get the same opportunity in Punjab”, Kejriwal said.
On his meeting with Prasad, Kejriwal said, “When I went to the government function for Nitish-ji’s swearing-in ceremony he (Prasad) pulled my hand and hugged me”.
“We had two aims in the beginning – tackling corruption and bringing Janlokpal and Swaraj”. The chief minister said, “If we reduce cars on the roads of Delhi, pollution level can come down significantly in the national capital”.
The AAP leader defended his support to Nitish Kumar. While criticising Kejriwal, the 78-year-old said he was glad that he is not associated with the AAP chief anymore. Asserting that the party’s main aim was to tackle corruption, Kejriwal claimed his was the first Government to sack a Minister for involvement in graft.
It said AAP was determined to build public opinion and politically oppose the NDA government’s “totalitarian attitude” towards non-NDA state governments.
He also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he had the entire nation at his disposal but even he did not do what the AAP had done in Delhi.
“But in case of our government, nobody knew about it. Someone had sent a clip on WhatsApp”.
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“We analyzed it and summoned the minister and confronted him”.
