AAP leaders gather to decide New Delhi CM

New Delhi: Delhi ruling party The Aam Aadmi Party  has scheduled a series of meetings, including that of its political affairs committee, on Monday evening to decide on a new chief minister for Delhi, a day after Arvind Kejriwal’s surprise announcement of quitting the post with 48 hours.

Senior AAP leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia reached Kejriwal’s official residence to discuss with him the names of probable for the chief minister’s post, AAP leaders said.

The AAP’s Political Affairs Committee meeting is scheduled to be held at the Delhi chief minister’s residence later in the evening.

Delhi ministers Atishi, Gopal Rai, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Kailash Gahlot, some MLAs from the reserved category, including Deputy Speaker of Delhi Assembly Rakhi Birla, as well as the AAP supremo’s wife Sunita Kejriwal, were making the rounds as probables for the post.

Addressing AAP workers at party headquarters on Sunday, Kejriwal announced to step down as chief minister amid corruption allegations against him and vowed not to return to the post till he got a “certificate of honesty” from the people.

The AAP supremo said he would become chief minister and Manish Sisodia deputy CM “only when people say we are honest”.