New Delhi, Dec 23: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder leader Arvind Kejriwal was Monday set to be Delhi’s chief minister when saying that his party can type a government with Congress backing.
After 5 days of a vote once folks were asked to mention ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on whether or not AAP ought to take power, Kejriwal proclaimed that an amazing majority within the capital had given their thumbs up.
“Majority of the folks needed us to create the govt, and currently i’m aiming to meet the Lt. Governor to tell him that AAP is prepared to create the govt in Delhi,” Kejriwal aforesaid in near Ghaziabad wherever he lives.
The AAP won 28 seats within the 70-member Delhi assembly, and was invited to undertake type a government when the Bharatiya Janata Party, that finished with thirty one seats, declined to try to to thus because it lacked majority support.
The Congress, in a bid to slight the BJP, proclaimed that its eight legislators would hold up the AAP. The AAP then aforesaid it might get public views on whether or not or not it ought to take Congress support.
On Monday, the Congress gave its “best wishes” to the AAP and asked it to fulfil the guarantees it created to the voters. A stunng BJP denounced the AAP call, terming it a “betrayal of the people”.
Kejriwal, an engineer by coaching and a former Indian Revenue Service officer whose social policy won him the Ramon Magsaysay award, did not say who are the new chief minister.
But a senior party leader, Manish Sisodia, declared that Kejriwal, who diode the one-year-old AAP to a dream debut within the election, are the chief minister.
“The party had from the start projected him (Kejriwal) as our CM candidate. we have a tendency to fought the elections below his leadership, and every one the MLAs had selected him because the chief minister candidate,” Sisodia aforesaid.
“There area unit some rumours that somebody else might become the chief minister, and Kejriwal would possibly play a special role.
“But the party has determined that he are the chief minister,” superimposed Sisodia, a senior figure within the AAP who is tipped to become a minister within the new government.
Sisodia superimposed that of the many thousands who tried and true the AAP vote, around 157,000 folks in Delhi, or seventy four p.c of these who took part within the exercise within the capital, needed the party to require power.
Besides soliciting responses on the social media and thru SMS, the AAP conjointly control some 280 public conferences across Delhi. In 257 of them, the bulk voted for an AAP government, he said.
Delhi’s former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who lost to Kejriwal by over 25,000 votes, aforesaid the Congress can still support the AAP till it fulfils the guarantees created to the voters.
BJP leader Harsh Vardhan, who might are the chief minister had the party formed a government, defendant the AAP of connexion hands with the “corrupt Congress” in its greed for power.