New Delhi: Soon after Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced his intent to resign as Delhi CM in two days, BJP termed it a "PR stunt", while claiming the AAP supremo was set to make his wife Sunita the new chief minister of Delhi.
"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.
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 the chief minister. "Arvind Kejriwal has done a PhD on how to make a virtue out of necessity."
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari also called Kejriwal's announcement a "PR stunt". "He has understood that his image among the people of Delhi is not of an honest leader but of a corrupt leader, today Aam Aadmi Party is known across the country as a corrupt party. Under his PR stunt, he wants to restore his image...It is clear that he wants to apply the Sonia Gandhi model, where she made Manmohan Singh a dummy Prime Minister and ran the government from behind the scenes. They have understood today that the Aam Aadmi Party is losing the Delhi elections and the people of Delhi cannot vote in their name, so they want to make someone else a scapegoat," Bhandari said.
BJP leader Manjunder Singh said that Kejriwal was not sacrificing anything, and according to the Supreme Court's order, he was forced to resign from the post of Chief Minister. Sirsa further alleged that Kejriwal had asked for two days just to convince all MLAs to make his wife Sunita the Chief Minister of Delhi.