Newsmaker: How Arvind Kejriwal uses 'Dharna' to avoid political suffocation

While the Delhi CM has deftly garnered Opposition support against the Modi govt, how he mends fences with a disgruntled Congress remains to be seen

Murky isn’t just Delhi’s current weather, but also its political landscape. If the city state’s residents are gasping for breath under a thick haze of dust, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has lately indulged in rare political contortions to prevent his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from being suffocated between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Since Monday, Kejriwal and three of his ministers have been sitting on a dharna in the waiting room of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s office at Delhi’s Raj Bhavan. The immediate provocation is the refusal of Indian Administrative Service