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New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is prepared to face Presidents rule in Delhi but has no plan to replace Arvind Kejriwal as chief minister (CM), at least until the Lok Sabha elections, party leaders have told ThePrint, amid the BJPs growing chorus on a constitutional crisis in the capital following the CMs arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the excise policy case.. The understanding among top AAP leaders is that the calls for Kejriwals resignation are aimed at forcing the party to bring a change at the top..
This impression is based on two counts: the AAP leadership feels that the BJP is acutely aware that any such step (Presidents Rule) will hurt it politically, and secondly, it would not be easy to establish a strong legal ground for bringing down a popularly elected government when the CM is far from getting convicted in the case.. On 31 March, the INDIA alliance will hold a rally in Delhis Ramlila Maidan, where the arrests of Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren will figure on the agenda..
Apart from host AAP, leaders of 12 opposition parties, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party MP Rahul Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Sorens wife Kalpana Soren and the Trinamool Congresss Derek OBrien are expected to address the rally...
Presidents Rule, after all, is not beyond the scope of judicial review, the AAP leader said.. Article 239AB states that the President of India, on receipt of a report from the L-G or otherwise, may dissolve the Delhi assembly upon being satisfied that a situation has arisen in which the administration of Delhi cannot be carried out in accordance with Article 239AA, which is the constitutional provision that deals with the governance structure of the capital...
While Sisodia and Singh are in jail in connection with the same excise policy case, Jain was arrested in a separate money laundering case.. These arrests have created a vacuum in the top rung of the AAP, which has formed three successive governments in Delhi since 2013, and rose to power in Punjab in 2022, also the year when it registered modest gains in the BJPs pocket borough of Gujarat...
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