CM Kejriwal to conduct floor test in Delhi today
Arvind Kejriwal said he wanted to take the majority test to prove that his party MLAs would not be tempted to cross over.
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New Delhi, Aug 29: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will take a confidence vote in the house today to prove all Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs are with him despite what he claims are the BJP's attempts to break his party and dislodge his government.
Arvind Kejriwal said he wanted to take the majority test to prove that his party MLAs would not be tempted to cross over. He has alleged that the BJP has offered ₹ 20 crores each to his MLAs to switch sides as part of an "Operation Lotus" - or a plan to topple his government - in Delhi.
Last week, Arvind Kejriwal's meeting at his home was attended by 53 of AAP's 62 MLAs in Delhi. The rest were accounted for and joined virtually, said Kejriwal, who later went to Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat with the MLAs. His deputy Manish Sisodia had claimed that the BJP had offered to "shut all cases" against him if he quit the AAP and crossed over. The CBI recently raided Sisodia in a case related to alleged irregularities and corruption in Delhi's liquor policy which was introduced earlier this year and then rolled back. Sisodia is number one on a list of 15 accused named in the CBI's FIR on liquor policy violations. The Enforcement Directorate has also filed a money laundering case against him.
The FIR is based on a reference from Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, who had accused AAP of bringing the Excise Policy "with the sole aim" of benefiting private liquor barons for financial benefits to "individuals at the highest echelons of the government. Saxena has alleged various discrepancies in the functioning of the Delhi government. The AAP in turn has accused him of working on the directions of the centre to derail its development projects.
