RESIGNING AS DELHI CM WAS A MISTAKE: KEJRI
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has said for the first time his decision to quit as the chief minister of Delhi after running a government for 49 days was a “mistake” adding he should have taken more time to “explain the rationale” behind it to the people.
Kejriwal’s resignation had come hours after his government could not introduce the jan lokpal bill in the Delhi assembly in February as MLAs of BJP, Congress and one of the JDU and an Independent opposed it in the 70-member assembly.
“I don’t regret forming the government and quitting on principle. Those decisions were right. The mistake we made was to assume that the people will celebrate our decision to quit on principle. We thought that people would understand our reasons on their own,” Kejriwal said in an interview to a business daily.
He said there was a communication gap after that and that “gap was filled by BJP and Congress who told people that we ran away from responsibility” adding he should not have quit the same day after the BJP and Congress blocked the passage of the bill.
“We should have waited for a few days, held public meetings to explain the rationale behind our decision. We quit suddenly and people could not understand why we did it. It was perceived negatively. We made a mistake on the communication front and we’ll have to be more careful in future.”