New Delhi chief minister to be able to push stalled projects
Hindustan TimesArvind Kejriwal’s decision to step down as Delhi chief minister may enable the Aam Aadmi Party leader chosen as his successor to put in motion several projects, which have been in limbo due to the CM’s incarceration, according to former senior bureaucrats and government officials, who added that the party will hope to leverage these schemes to boost its chances in the upcoming 2025 assembly elections in the Capital. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal with party leaders Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Atishi, Kailash Gahlot, and Sanjay Singh in New Delhi on Sunday. The new CM’s approval of such major projects will be a shot in the arm for the AAP months before the 2025 assembly elections in Delhi, a senior former bureaucrat said. Unlike Kejriwal, whose bail conditions lay down that he cannot go to Delhi secretariat and the Delhi CM office and cannot sign official files except those which are required to be sent to lieutenant governor VK Saxena for clearance, the new chief minister of Delhi will not have any restrictions.