Delhi only has one chief minister. It’s Arvind Kejriwal: Atishi in first remarks

Calling Arvind Kejriwal her “guru”, Delhi Chief Minister-elect Atishi said her target was to get the AAP chief re-elected to the top post in the next Assembly polls. In her first remarks after being chosen as the next Delhi Chief Minister, Atishi also assailed the BJP for filing “false cases” against Kejriwal and trying to destablise the AAP government.
Addressing the media, Atishi said, “Delhi has only one Chief Minister and that is Arvind Kejriwal… I will work for the next few months towards the goal of bringing back Kejriwal as Delhi Chief Minister.”
Atishi, the only woman minister in the Delhi Cabinet, said it was only possible in the AAP that a “first-time politician becomes the Chief Minister of a state”.
“Had I been in any other party, perhaps I would not even have been given an election ticket. But Arvind Kejriwal trusted me, made me an MLA and a minister and today gave me the responsibility of the Chief Minister,” Atishi, who holds 14 portfolios, including finance, said.
Atishi said she would work under the guidance of Kejriwal, prompting the BJP to dub her as a “puppet Chief Minister of Delhi”.
“As long as I am shouldering this huge responsibility, I will have just one goal… I will try to protect the people of Delhi and run the government under the guidance of Arvind Kejriwal,” she said.
The new Chief Minister, however, will have her work cut out, with Assembly elections just six months away. The AAP will have to tackle not just an aggressive BJP but a resurgent Congress as well.
“Voters of Delhi know that if Arvind Kejriwal is not elected back, the education, health, free electricity schemes will be affected,” Atishi said.
Atishi, backed by Arvind Kejriwal, was unanimously chosen as the next Chief Minister by AAP MLAs earlier in the day. Last week, Kejriwal announced that he would step down as Chief Minister, two days after he was granted bail in the liquor policy case by the Supreme Court.