In a show of strength against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held a “maha rally” at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, with the party’s senior leaders in attendance. Addressing the thousands-strong crowd, which included AAP workers, Kejriwal said: “The movement to save democracy and the Constitution that is beginning from this stage today will be successful.”
In the 75-year history of Independent India, Kejriwal said, “this is the first time a Prime Minister is not listening to the SC’s order”.
“This is how democracy ends. This is a dictatorship,” the AAP national convener added.
The Union government on May 19 brought an ordinance effectively nullifying a May 11 order of the Supreme Court that shifted the authority of controlling bureaucrats in all but three domains from the lieutenant governor to the city’s elected government.
The ordinance also provided for creating a National Capital Civil Service Authority and Public Service Commission for transfers and postings of officers.
Over the last one month, Kejriwal has met several opposition leaders to garner support against the ordinance to build a public campaign as well as one aimed at halting any move by the Centre to turn its ordinance into a full-fledged law in parliament, particularly in the Rajya Sabha.
Soon after the rally, Delhi BJP held a press conference attacking Kejriwal as an “ill-mannered nawab”, and objecting to the language used by him against PM Modi.
Kejriwal drew on his choice of location for the rally, where the 54-year-old AAP leader shot to prominence during anti-corruption protests in 2011. On Sunday, in his 36-minute-long address, he said that while he stood at the Ramlila Maidan 12 years ago against corruption, now he is launching a movement against an “autocratic dictator”.
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