Kejriwal defends his hug with Lalu Prasad

Assuring that the Jan Lokpal Bill will be passed in the ongoing Winter Session of Delhi Assembly, Kejriwal said, “Lokpal is also going to be passed in this session”.

The three-day National Council Meeting that started Monday will continue till Wednesday. Don’t run after elections.

“He shook my hand and pulled me into a hug and then he held my hand and raise it”, NDTV quoted the Delhi chief minister as saying, while adding, “It was projected and questions were asked”.

The AAP said people replaced a year ago “the most corrupt government in Indian history with an alternative that promised development and good governance”. Nobody asks questions when other leaders hug him (Lalu).

Reminding the members of the drubbing in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Mr Kejriwal said that the loss was a big lesson for the party. We are against his record of corruption and we’ll always oppose it. We are against his dynasty politics.

“At Nitish Kumar’s swearing in, Lalu Yadav was on the stage”.

Suryapal Singh, a 66-year-old Dwarka Sector 12 resident, said: “We must cooperate with any good decision taken by the government, whether it is pollution, road safety or electricity”.

The AAP leader defended his support to Nitish Kumar.

There was much anticipation over how Kejriwal would behave around Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.

An income tax commissioner-turned-activist-turned-politician, Kejriwal said four years back he and his colleagues had never thought of even contesting elections. We need to work hard and honest.

Insisting people believe that only the AAP could provide corruption-free governance and adhere to its basic tenets of Swaraj, secularism and social harmony, the AAP pledged to spread and deepen its party organisation.

It said AAP was determined to build public opinion and politically oppose the NDA government’s “totalitarian attitude” towards non-NDA state governments.

“Kejriwal is now speaking the language of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.

The AAP regime, he said, was the first to oust one of its own ministers when it realized he was linked to corruption. We see how Governments keep brushing corruption cases under the carpet, especially against their Ministers.

“We analyzed it and summoned the minister and confronted him”.