Less than two months after Arvind Kejriwal took the metro train to take his oath as Delhi's Chief Minister in a large park packed with tens of thousands of people, the man who has delivered a seismic shift in Indian politics is now shaking up things again.
He has offered resignation after his push for the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill was today blocked in the Delhi state legislature by MLAs from the Congress and the BJP. Earlier, in the raucous Delhi Assembly, he declared that he will give up the chief minister's office not once but 1000 times to fight against corruption.
The legislators from the Congress and BJP who voted today to prevent him from tabling the Jan Lokpal Bill say they support the proposal, but cannot ignore the fact that it has been vetoed by Delhi's constitutional head, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.
The chief minister had rejected the opinion that before it is presented for review in the legislature, the bill must be vetted by the Lieutenant Governor as a representative of the centre. Amidst all this, the new discussion is whether Kejriwal is doing the right thing in the way he is progressing.
