Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sept 1: Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, won the trust vote in the assembly on Thursday after accusing the BJP of poaching MLAs.
In the trust vote, 58 MLAs supported Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In the 70-member Delhi Assembly, the AAP has 62 MLAs while the BJP has eight.
After claiming that the opposition BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ to topple his administration had failed because it was unable to persuade any of the AAP MLAs to cross over, Kejriwal presented a resolution of confidence in the Delhi Assembly.
“They failed to buy even a single AAP MLA in Delhi. We have 62 MLAs, two are out of the country, and one is in jail. The fourth member is the Speaker of the House,” the Delhi CM said after the trust motion was passed.
Kejriwal said last week that the BJP had targeted 40 AAP MLAs and offered each of them Rs 20 crore to switch sides. The BJP responded by accusing Kejriwal of manipulating the assembly to spread political propaganda and engage in theatre in an effort to distract people from his government’s “scam” on alcohol.
