Arvind Kejriwal to meet L-G today, decide Delhi CM face

On Monday, he held a high-level meeting of the party’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) at his official residence to discuss and decide a leader to replace him for the next five months as an interim CM.

AAP senior leader and minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said Saxena has agreed to meet Kejriwal.

“CM Kejriwal discussed the issue of the new Chief Minister of Delhi with each PAC member and minister present at the meeting and took their feedback. On Tuesday, there will be a meeting of the AAP’s Legislative Party… where Kejriwal will put forth the discussion held in the PAC meeting among MLAs and a decision will be taken on the new CM,” he said.

The meeting was attended by Ministers Atishi, Gopal Rai, Bharadwaj, Kailash Gahlot, and some MLAs from the reserved category, including Deputy Speaker of the Delhi Assembly Rakhi Birla. Senior AAP leader and former deputy CM Manish Sisodia was also present.

Bharadwaj said the CM held one-on-one meetings with PAC members and ministers and assessments were done accordingly. “Leaders only know about their assessments, not that of others,” he said.

“Several names are doing the rounds… The party’s main aim now is to speed up projects and implement important schemes like the Mahila Samman Rashi Yojana; it is women-centric and there are 48 lakh women voters in Delhi. Other schemes are pending for extension. So, public work will help the party strengthen its voter base,” said an AAP leader.

Addressing AAP workers on Sunday, Kejriwal ruled out the possibility of Sisodia, his second-in-command, becoming CM or minister, saying that they both would go among the people and seek their verdict to prove themselves “innocent”. The CM and AAP also demanded that the Delhi Assembly elections be held in November, along with Maharashtra.

Kejriwal was released from jail on Friday after the Supreme Court granted him bail in the CBI’s excise policy case. Sisodia, who was jailed in the same case, was released on bail by the apex court last month.