Arvind Kejriwal' to sworn-in as Delhi CM at Ramlila Maidan for 3rd time

The sprawling Ramlila Maidan will once again reverberate with sounds of hundreds of people cheering for AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal who is all set to take oath as the Delhi Chief Minister for the third straight time on Sunday morningArvind Kejriwals tryst with Ramlila Maidan continues to swearin as Delhi CM at same venue for 3rd timeRead ANI Story httpstcoJayj7D7exv pictwittercomOlYQKabdPFmdash ANI Digital ani_digital February 15 2020Kejriwal is scheduled to be swornin along with his Cabinet at 10 am days after the AAP romped to a magnificent victory in the Delhi Assembly election in which the party won 62 seats in the 70member House for the second time since 2015Ramlila Maidan served as the battleground for the 51yearold bureaucratturnedpolitician during the India Against Corruption movement in 2011 Million of Indians from all walks of life had thronged the historic ground rallying for a series of measures to tackle corruption during the tenure of the Manmohan Singhled United Progressive Alliance UPA which also included the passage of a Jan Lokpal BillWhile the ground draws its name from the Ramlila that is staged there every year AAPs association with the place dates back to 201112 The venue holds significance in the life of Kejriwal and the birth of the AAP or the Common Man Party whose interests the activistturnedpolitician wanted to representThe ground located in the heart of the national capital can accommodate over a lakh people The venue has witnessed several events which shaped the landscape of Indian politics be it former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shashtri coining the famous Jai Jawan Jai Kisan slogan in 1965 socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan addressing a gathering during the Total Revolution movement in the 1970s and several antiCongress leaders coming in unison to form the Janata Party just after Emergency in 1977But the India Against Corruption movement which was led by social activist Anna Hazare and his deputy Kejriwal at Ramlila ground is considered a watershed moment for Indian politics in recent times The crusade included Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai are all founder members of AAP which made an impressive debut in the 2013 Delhi Assembly elections It also included Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan who later left AAP after a fall out with KejriwalInterestingly this is also the third consecutive time when Kejriwal will be swornin at the historic ground He had earlier taken the oath of office in 2013 and 2015 at the same venueRamlila Maidan has indeed turned the life of Kejriwal around first as an activist and then becoming the youngest Chief Minister of Delhi to take officeWhen Kejriwal was swornin for the second time in 2015 he had promised an end to VIP culture vowed to eliminate corruption and continue to stand for the aam aadmi much to the raucous cheers of thousands of supporters Notably the oath ceremony was held on February 14 coinciding with Valentines DayFast forward to 2020 Kejriwal who will receive a heros welcome at the sprawling ground has urged the people of the city to witness the son of Delhi taking oath on SundayThe AAP nearly repeated its 2015 performance sweeping the Assembly polls garnering 62 of the 70 seats in the face of a highvoltage campaign by the BJP which fielded a battery of Union Ministers and Chief Ministers in its electioneering spearheaded by Home Minister Amit ShahThe BJP marginally improved its tally managing just eight seats from its 2015s tally of three seats The Congress failed to open its account in the second successive election The AAPs stunning triumph came in the backdrop of antiCitizenship Amendment Act CAA protests being held at several places in Delhi including at Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh which the BJP had used as a poll plank in its campaignIn his victory speech at the AAP headquarters here Kejriwal said that the Assembly polls results marked the beginning of a new kind of politics and asserted it was the victory of the Delhiites and not hisEarlier on Wednesday Sisodia extended an invitation to all to attend the swearingin ceremony Delhis son Arvind Kejriwal and the new government under his leadership will take oath on February 16 at Ramlila Maidan I appeal to all of you to reach there by 10 am to bless your son and encourage him he had tweetedCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates