Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot on Monday joined BJP, just a day after he resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party. In his resignation letter, Gahlot claimed that AAP’s “political ambitions” have overtaken its commitment towards people.
“Instead of fighting for people’s rights we have increasingly only been fighting for our own political agenda,” the 50-year-old said in his resignation letter to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal.
Gahlot, a prominent Jat leader in the party, also took a jab at Kejriwal as he flagged some “awkward” and “embarrassing” controversies like ‘sheeshmahal’, saying it makes everyone doubt if “we still believe in being ‘Aam Aadmi'”.
The switch by Gahlot, who was incharge of portfolios of Home, Administrative Reforms, IT and Women and Child Development, comes at a time when the party is gearing up for the Delhi Assembly polls slated to be held in February next year.
Gahlot is the third member of the Kejriwal cabinet to have quit the party and the ministerial portfolio.
In April, Raaj Kumar Anand, the minister in charge of social welfare and labour and employment, quit the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Anand replaced Rajendra Pal Gautam who had resigned from the party and the cabinet in November 2022.