How the life of Arvind Kejriwal completed the loop – Firstpost

Last night, Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a silver laundering investigation linked to abandoned excise policy, created an uproar among his party Aam Aadmi (AAP) and the opposition leaders. The arrest by the Directorate of the Application of Laws (ED) comes only a few weeks before India went to the general elections.

The AAP should advance a lower court against the arrest of the CM of Delhi after having withdrawn its plea from the Supreme Court on Friday March 22. After Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, Kejriwal is the third high -level AAP leader arrested in the Delhi alcohol policy.

The arrest of Delhi CM on corruption accusations is important while Kejriwal has swept power in the national capital almost a decade on an anti-corruption board.

Let’s take a closer look at his political career.

Ascension and climb of Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal became a familiar name in 2011 while he was leading the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement alongside social activist Anna Hazare. They sat on two hunger strikes in Delhi that year, demanding a Jan Lokpal (mediator) to fight “political corruption”, noted Indian Express.

Kejriwal, a former IRS officer, won admirers nationally with the anti-corruption movement, who altered the electoral prospects of the UPA government led by the congress in the 2014 elections of Lok Sabha . The Grand Old Party regime fought against the main accusations of corruption at the time.

The Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party would have benefited from the movement led by Hazare. On the “Vague Modi” and the anti-congress feelings, the Safran party was catapulted in power at the center, the newspaper reported.

Emerging from IAC, Kejriwal and his loved ones launched the political party – AAP – in October 2012. The party won people’s confidence and won 28 of the 70 seats in the Delhi 2013 assembly.

Kejriwal even beat the chief of the congress and former former CM Sheila Dikshit by more than 25,000 votes from the constituency of New Delhi. He trained the government with external support from the congress.

Leaning in his image “Common Man”, Kejriwal took a metro to reach Ramlila Maidan for his swearing -up ceremony instead of an official vehicle. His government only lasted 49 days when Kejriwal resigned from the obstruction in the adoption of Jan Lokpal’s bill to the Delhi Assembly, according to PTI.

Propelled by the performance of his party during his beginnings in the survey in Delhi, Kejriwal decided to fight against the candidate of the Prime Minister of BJP, Narendra Modi, of Varanasi in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014. While the chief AAP AA Obtained more than two Lakh votes, he was defeated by Modi by a huge margin.

While Delhi started surveys in 2015, Kejriwal’s party returned to power with a greater mandate, obtaining 67 of the 70 seats in the Assembly. The BJP managed to win three seats, while the Congress pulled a white.

The many disputes of the AAP

While the AAP has tasted success in Delhi, the differences began to occur in the party’s leadership. In 2015, the party expelled several founding members such as Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha.

Yadav and Bhushan had struck Kejriwal’s “dictatorial” manners, while the party accused them of undergoing its electoral campaign in Delhi.

Another separate founding member, Mayank Gandhi, said Footprint In 2018, that Kejriwal was “opportunistic” and under him, AAP became an “autocratic party” of an “autocratic party”.

Despite the release of many important party faces, Kejriwal continued to gain popularity with the emphasis on his government on improving the health infrastructure of the national capital, upgrading of public schools and supply from grants to power and water.

Although it was denounced by its capitulation detractors on its promise Lokpal, the acceptance of Kejriwal among the voters remained intact. While the AAP could not win a single Delhi seat in the 2019 LOK Sabha elections, the party returned to power in the city by winning 62 seats in the assembly of the assembly the following year.

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Arvind Kejriwal’s life completes the loop

Kejriwal, 55, once called an “insignificant man”. However, it’s far from the truth now.

After Delhi, the AAP recorded a landslide victory in Punjab, overthrowing the power congress in 2022. It also reached the status of a national party with its expansion in Gujarat by winning five seats in the Assembly this year.

During the decade, Kejriwal’s policy has evolved. After the adoption of a “Hindutva Sweet” approach to associate itself with the Congress for the next Lok Sabha elections, the AAP has experienced major changes in its position.

Kejriwal, who went up to power as a anti-corruption crusader, is himself faced with accusations of corruption. In a blow to his “ordinary” image, the BJP accused Kejriwal of reorganizing his official bungalow for Rs 52.7 crores.

The so-called “mufflerman” with glasses, has now been arrested on allegations of transplant as part of the Delhi’s excise policy, after months of jumping to ED. The opposition condemned his arrest, qualifying him as a storm against democracy.

Last year, the Delhi CM said at a press conference that if “Kejriwal was corrupt, no one in this world is honest”. While India goes to the polls next month and the main AAP leaders are behind bars, we will have to wait to see if the party can successfully revive its anti-corrupt image and convince the voters of ” Kejriwal’s innocence.

With agency entries