Arvind Kejriwal sets the stage for the Delhi campaign

During the AAP meet at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, Sunday. (Photo by Gajendra Yadav)

On Sunday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the launch of a signature campaign to call for the independence of Delhi, at a conference in Nairobi. Party state Aam Aadmi (AAP). The CM suggested that, until the request of a state is satisfied, the lieutenant governor of Delhi should be chosen by the people.

The conference, attended by about 5,000 activists and leaders, marked the launch of a full-fledged movement. independence. Gopal Rai, AAP's national executive leader, told the meeting that "3,000 purna rajya kendras (separate state centers) should be opened across Delhi."

"On July 3 we will begin the first stage of our movement, these centers, and we will launch a signature campaign to collect 10 lakh signatures, which we will place at the feet of Prime Minister Modi," Rai said. . Kejriwal added that this would be the first phase of a more sustained movement, and once the signatures would be submitted to Prime Minister Modi, the campaign would continue "until we have 100% signatures." inhabitants of the city. "

Kejriwal added that the day would be considered "the day when the people of Delhi have the same rights as the people of Maharashtra or Andhra Pradesh". Manish Sisodia compared the Indira Gandhi indoor stadium rally to the Jantar Mantar rally. Declaring that the central government should keep the New Delhi City Council (NDMC) region as its capital region and "give the rest of Delhi its freedom", the CM reiterated the pledges upon which the PAA campaign for a separate state is articulated.

the Delhi government retained as a priority 30% of the income tax generated by the city to allow the construction of homes for each resident within five years and reserve 85% of government jobs to residents of the city.

Kejriwal also baderted that "with a separate state, the Delhi government would be able to create more new universities to provide higher education for the city's youth, regularize unauthorized settlements in the United States. A month, and make the city "crime free" by taking "We are an elected popular government, but the public interest projects that we tried to launch, which also have support popular as the mohalla clinics, the Delhi gateway is historically still enslaved – first under the Mughals, then under the British and now under the LG, "said Kejriwal.

" If the LG must exercise So much power over an elected government, it is the right of the people that until a separate state is reached, the LG should be chosen by them, or their will will always be overestimated He added, recent Delhi News, download Indian Express App