Now, part II of script will unfold

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation, with all the sound and fury, would have been surprising had it not happened. When, in December 2013, the Aam Aadmi Party formed a government in Delhi, it had a single objective in mind — to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill, failing which to bow out of office as a martyr punished for taking on the corrupt. They simply saw it as a dawai for corruption.” The larger symbolism of the Jan Lokpal Bill is why Mr. Kejriwal took on the might of the Centre and Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor on the constitutional validity of its introduction and passage in the Assembly. The Congress could obviously not support the AAP government’s Jan Lokpal Bill and the Lokpal Bill passed by Parliament for which credit was given to Rahul Gandhi. In the event, the Jan Lokpal Bill got blocked right at the stage of introduction with the Union Home Ministry insisting upon prior permission from the Lt. Mr. Kejriwal contested this furiously: He quoted experts who made the opposite case, he petitioned the Lt.