Why Delhi CM Kejriwal Is Seeking Confidence Vote Despite Majority?

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday moved a Motion of Confidence in the Delhi Assembly. The proceedings of the House will take place tomorrow and the Motion will be taken up for discussion. Currently, the AAP has 72 MLAs in the 70-member Assembly.

Kejriwal said that two AAP MLAs were approached by the BJP to join the party and offered them Rs 25 crore each. "The MLAs were told that 21 AAP legislators have agreed to leave the party and more are in touch with the BJP. They offered the MLAs ₹ 25 crore to join the BJP. The MLAs told me they did not accept. When we spoke to other MLAs, we found that they had not contacted 21, but seven. They were trying to carry out another Operation Lotus," he said.

"So it is clear that the alleged liquor policy scam is not a scam at all but an attempt to break our party and topple the government by filing false cases like they have in other states. Their aim is not to carry out an investigation but to arrest our leaders - and they have already arrested some - in the guise of the liquor policy case. Their aim is to topple the government because they know they can never win elections in Delhi," the AAP chief added.

Why Delhi CM Wants To Prove the Majority?
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said that to prove that the AAP has people's faith, he is presenting the Motion of confidence. "We can see that parties are being broken & governments are being toppled in other states by slapping false cases. In Delhi, they intend to arrest AAP leaders under the pretext of liquor policy case. They want to topple the Delhi Government because they know that they can never win the election in Delhi...To show the people that none of our MLAs broke away and all of them are intact, I present a Confidence Motion..."

The Delhi Chief Minister has been asked by a Delhi court to appear before it on February 17 on a complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for skipping summons in an excise policy-linked case and noted that prima facie the AAP chief was "legally bound" to comply.

So far, he has skipped five summons issued by the central agency in a Delhi liquor policy-linked money laundering case.