New Delhi : With the President signing off on disqualifying 20 legislators of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s only hope of avoiding fresh elections for their assembly seats is an intervention by court. The Election Commission had recommended that the AAP legislators be disqualified for holding offices of profit as they were appointed parliamentary secretaries by Mr Kejriwal.
The Delhi High Court will hear AAP’s appeal against the Election Commission’s move today at 4 pm. If the High Court rejects the appeal, AAP will move the Supreme Court.
The opposition has already sounded the election bugle, and in the Delhi BJP office, names are being discussed of likely candidates for by-elections to the 20 seats that will be vacated if the AAP legislators are disqualified.
So even as Arvind Kejriwal takes the legal route, he is prepping for by-elections with a simple strategy — appealing to Delhi voters that AAP is being singled out and is the victim of a giant conspiracy.
Sources close to the chief minister said Mr Kejriwal, in a private meeting with his 20
