Arvind Kejriwal was doing good job, but people taught him lesson as he opened liquor vends: Anna Hazare

Activist Anna Hazare has said AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal was doing a good job as Delhi Chief Minister but he started opening liquor vends and faced the peoples wrath as a resultA woman Rekha Gupta becoming the new chief minister of the national capital was a matter of pride he told reporters on Friday adding that the people voted for her because of her pure thoughts and deedsAs chief minister Kejriwal should have set an example before society but went astray said the octogenarian activist whose anticorruption movement is credited for the birth of the Aam Aadmi PartyThe earlier CM Kejriwal was doing a good job and became Delhi chief minister thrice I did not speak anything against him as he was doing a good job But then he slowly started opening liquor vends and issuing licences Then I got upset Hazare told reporters referring to the AAP governments controversial excise policyHazare notably is known for a staunch opposition to the consumption or sale of liquorKejriwal was once Hazares associate in the anticorruption movement but the two parted ways after the former formed the AAP in 2012In the elections earlier this month the BJP ousted the AAP from power in Delhi with Kejriwal losing his seatThe Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate have alleged that irregularities had been committed while modifying the Delhi excise policy 202122 and undue favours extended to licence holders The policy was later scrappedMinisters facing allegations must quit says Anna HazareVeteran social activist Anna Hazare on Friday said ministers facing allegations should immediately resignThe opposition has been seeking the resignations of NCP ministers Dhananjay Munde and Manikrao KokateMunde MLA from Parli in Beed is under fire from the opposition and some Mahayuti colleagues after close aide Walmik Karad was held in an extortion case linked to the abduction and brutal murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Massajog in Beed on December 9Kokate was on Thursday sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Nashik court in a 1995 case where he was charged with submitting fake documents to get flats under a government quotaWithout taking names Hazare said If a minister faces allegations it would be inappropriate on his part to remain in the cabinet even for a minute He must immediately tender his resignation If you have made a mistake then there is no need to remain in powerWith inputs from PTI