This refers to the report "Kejriwal & Co quit, to serve the people" (February 15). Many people, I find, have not clearly understood why Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his government have resigned. Is it because the state legislature did not permit him to break a law based on the Constitution to which he had pledged allegiance? Delhi is the federal capital, the only city of its type in the country and it cannot be considered unusual for India's federal government to have some say under the laws governing this territory. Even if the provisions of the Constitution and the laws governing Delhi are in some way unfair to the residents, the proper remedy lies in amending them and not breaking them. The effective governance of the country, which is needed badly today, cannot be achieved by breaking its laws.
The Lieutenant Governor, Kejriwal says, is acting like the British Viceroy. Even if it is true (though not so apparently), Kejriwal should remember that the leaders of India's freedom movement did at a point of time work under the British viceroys and observed the laws prescribed by British government, without abandoning even for a moment their goal of uprooting those laws and removing the people from their seats. And they did achieve their goal wholly and completely. Kejriwal should try and learn lessons from history rather than quoting it the way he likes.
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The Lieutenant Governor, Kejriwal says, is acting like the British Viceroy. Even if it is true (though not so apparently), Kejriwal should remember that the leaders of India's freedom movement did at a point of time work under the British viceroys and observed the laws prescribed by British government, without abandoning even for a moment their goal of uprooting those laws and removing the people from their seats. And they did achieve their goal wholly and completely. Kejriwal should try and learn lessons from history rather than quoting it the way he likes.
R C Mody New Delhi
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