Win 137 seats or quit: Yadav to CM

A day before Delhi votes to choose its municipal leaders, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav has written an open letter to Delhi chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accusing him of betraying the trust of people.

Yadav said that if Kejriwal and his party failed to win atleast half of the 272 seats in the corporation elections, then the chief minister should resign.

Reminding Kejriwal of speeches made before becoming the chief minister, in which he had said that people should have the right to recall a government if it failed to live up to their expectations, Yadav said, “If you even manage to get a combined majority in the three corporations (137 seats), I will accept that I was wrong and will say that Delhi didn’t see you as the one who cheated them.”

Yogendra Yadav’s newly formed Swaraj India party is contesting the Delhi corporation elections on 211 seats.

In the letter, which is signed as ‘your former companion’, Yadav blamed Kejriwal for “revival” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the corporation elections.

“After you betrayed them, the people of Delhi feel incapable of distinguishing between good and bad. And many people, with a feeling of dejection, are now returning to the same old parties they had had earlier rejected,” the letter reads.

Yadav has accused Kejriwal of being “drowned in egoism, narcissism and greed for power.”

Accusing him of personality cult, Yadav said: “You (Kejriwal) have turned tomorrow’s corporation elections into a referendum of your personal popularity. Your party is asking for votes solely in your name; your hoardings don’t even have your party’s name,” the letter reads.