Mumbai- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann on Thursday met Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar who supplied his “full support” to the Aam Aadmi Party in its struggle to safeguard its powers in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central authorities.
“Democracy is under attack from the BJP. We must all unitedly safeguard it. Efforts are being made to deprive the rights of governments elected by the people and create hurdles for them. We shall fully support the AAP’s fight in parliament, ” declared Pawar after his half-hour assembly with Kejriwal-Mann and different leaders.
Pawar mentioned that that is not restricted to Delhi or any particular person get together, however a nationwide downside regarding each state, particularly the non-BJP states and he would communicate with all non-BJP events to hitch and unitedly struggle this motion to guard democracy with the AAP.
Kejriwal mentioned that nice injustice was being accomplished by the BJP to the individuals of Delhi even after the 8-year lengthy authorized battle within the Supreme Court and now the Centre has introduced the Ordinance to usurp the state’s rights on appointments of officers.
“This struggle has gone beyond Delhi. It’s a fight to safeguard the federal structure of the country which the BJP is trying to undermine, ” he mentioned.
Referring to the BJP’s machinations in non-BJP states, Kejriwal mentioned that if the individuals vote in opposition to it, then the BJP buys out its MLAs to topple the federal government, or put Central investigating companies to hound their leaders or harass them via the Governors who don’t permit the elected governments to operate.
“This is the message that if the people don’t vote for the BJP, then they will either bring it down or not allow it to function. This must stop and we have to unitedly save democracy and the federal structure, ” urged Kejriwal.
“We are said to be the world’s biggest democracy, but the reality is that attempts are being made to kill it through various means. The state Raj Bhavans have become like BJP headquarters and the Governors interfere in every routine work of the state government and don’t allow them to work, ” added Mann.
On Wednesday, Kejriwal and Mann met former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and secured the Shiv Sena-UBT’s help in his marketing campaign for Delhi’ rights, and has earlier met different CM’s and political leaders across the nation.
Armed with two consecutive successes in Maharashtra, a beaming Kejriwal mentioned he’ll take an appointment to satisfy Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi for his or her help in his campaign.