Kejriwal to visit Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand, seek support against Centre’s Ordinance

After meeting Yechury, Kejriwal requested the Congress once again to support his campaign, stating that, the party need not back him, saying it was about him but the people, democracy and the Constitution of India.

Kejriwal also urged Congress to make a choice between “standing with the public or aligning with the Modi government” over the services ordinance, stating AAP will stand with the party if the Centre does something similar in Rajasthan.

As part of his protest against the Ordinance, Kejriwal had also skipped the NITI Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last Saturday. Instead, he wrote to Modi saying, “PM of a country is like a father figure. Please let the non-BJP governments work freely.”

On May 19, the Centre brought in the Ordinance extending powers to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor over services in the administration of the region.

The Ordinance had come a week after the Supreme Court had passed a judgment on May 11 in favour of the Delhi Government on the issue of who has control over the bureaucracy in the national capital, giving the Aam Aadmi Party government the power to transfer and post bureaucrats.