Hours after Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that he would resign from the top ministerial position, mere days after being released from Tihar Jail on bail in the Delhi excise policy case, Gandhian social activist Anna Hazare reacted to the development.
"There was a time when I had warned him against entering politics," said Hazare.
Anna Hazare, who had led an anti-corruption movement earlier along with Kejriwal in Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, observed: "I have cautioned Kejriwal earlier not to join politics. I had said him several times that the ultimate sense of fulfillment is in social service, but he did not pay heed to my words. I have been saying from the very outset that Arvind Kejriwal should not have gone into politics. And he decided not to listen to me."
He also stated, "What has happened now was inevitable. I cannot know what is in Arvind Kejriwal's heart."
This is not the first time when Anna Hazare reacted to developments related to Arvind Kejriwal.
Earlier, Hazare expressed disappointment over Kejriwal's arrest in the Delhi excise policy case.
At that time, he had expressed his frustration saying "I am hurt to the core that Arvind Kejriwal, who used to sit along with me and spoke against the liquor several times, is now associated with the designing of liquor policies. It is he himself. He was arrested.".
Anna Hazare's critique comes at a time when Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi, declared that he would resign from office in two days and cause an early election to take place in the national capital. Arvind Kejriwal has threatened to refuse returning to his chair as the Chief Minister unless he is granted a "certificate of honesty" by people. Kejriwal, bailled in the corruption case over the excise policy, said: "I will return to becoming Chief Minister only when the people give me a certificate of honesty. I want to go through this 'agnipariksha' after coming out of jail."
He added, "Till polls are held, Chief Minister will be someone else. Manish Sisodia and I will stay away from becoming the Chief Minister."
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