Arvind Kejriwal moves trust vote after Enforcement Directorate summons
New Delhi/IBNS: In a show of strength amid speculation of his arrest, which has ramped up after a sixth summon was issued to him on Wednesday in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved a trust vote in the Assembly on Friday.
Discussions on the motion will be held on Saturday, a day on which the AAP supremo is also supposed to appear before a court and explain why he had skipped the five earlier summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate.
Moving the vote of confidence motion in the Assembly, Kejriwal said two AAP MLAs told him that they were approached by BJP members who claimed that the Delhi chief minister would be arrested soon.
Claiming that the BJP wanted to form its government in Delhi by doing so, Kejriwal said, “By god's grace and thanks to people's faith in us, they were unsuccessful. So, to see for ourselves and show the people that not one of our MLAs defected and all of them are with us, I am presenting a motion of confidence.”
The Aam Aadmi Party has 62 MLAs in the 70-member Assembly and the BJP has eight.
The trust vote, which comes on the heels of Kejriwal and Delhi Minister Atishi being served notices by the crime branch over their allegations that the BJP was trying to "poach" AAP MLAs, will be the party's second in two years.
After making similar allegations that the BJP was trying to topple its government, the party tabled, and won, a confidence motion in 2022 as well.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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