The BJP has welcomed the Election Commission’s recommendation to President Ram Nath Kovind to disqualify 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the Office of Profit issue and demanded that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resign as his government had lost the “moral power” to continue.
Addressing the press, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that Mr. Kejriwal’s government was now a “lame duck”.
“The Constitution has shown the mirror to the AAP government which had become arrogant from its numerical strength in the Delhi Assembly,” he said. Mr. Patra cited corruption cases against AAP MLAs to claim that the party which started its political journey from the India Against Corruption movement has become “I am corruption.”
“Many of the [Arvind] Kejriwal Cabinet members had to resign. Fifteeen of their MLAs have cases against them and 12 were arrested under different charges. In this scenario, the biggest question before the people is whether the Arvind Kejriwal government has any moral right to remain in power,” he said.
