Kejriwal resignation talk: Delhi CM has PhD in making virtue out of necessity, says BJP

New Delhi: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal has played an "emotional card" by announcing that he would resign as Delhi chief minister after two days in his bid to make a virtue out of necessity, the BJP said on Sunday.

"He is enacting the resignation drama because the court did not acquit him in the (excise policy scam) case and instead granted him a conditional bail, which turned him into a ceremonial minister from the chief minister," BJP national spokesperson Shezad Poonwalla claimed.

Two days after being released from Tihar on bail in the excise policy scam case, the AAP national convener said he would resign after two days and demand early polls in Delhi. He vowed not to sit in the CM's chair until people give him a "certificate of honesty."

Terming Kejriwal's move a "PR exercise and a drama", Poonwalla alleged that the AAP national convenor's announcement is a part of his plan to make his wife, Sunita Kejriwal, the chief minister. "Arvind Kejriwal has done a PhD on how to make a virtue out of necessity."

Addressing AAP workers, Kejriwal said he would hold a meeting of AAP MLAs in the next couple of days, and a party leader would take over as chief minister.

Hitting out at the Delhi chief minister, Poonwalla said, "He has taken two days because his entire plan is to make his wife Sunita Kejriwal chief minister of Delhi in his place."

"The emotional and PR cards that he is playing is aimed at creating a Manmohan Singh-like system in Delhi as (former Congress president) Sonia Gandhi did," the BJP leader charged.

In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, people ensured the defeat of the AAP and the Congress in all seven seats despite the Kejriwal-led party's 'jail ka badla vote campaign', he added.