AAP Invites PM And His Cabinet For Arvind Kejriwal's Oath Taking Ceremony

The AAP has invited PM Modi and his cabinet for the oath taking ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal as the 8th CM of New Delhi; the ceremony will be held on 14th of this month.

"We want to invite the prime minister, all union ministers and Delhi MPs," said Manish Sisodiya. 

PM Modi has given Arvind Kejriwal an appointment at 10:30 AM tomorrow. During the meeting, the CM designate will formally invite the PM to the ceremony, which will be held at the historical Ramlila Maidan. Mr Kejriwal took his oath of Chief Ministership at the same venue on the previous occasion as well.  

The chances of the PM going to the ceremony are not very bright as he has a packed schedule over the weekend; he is flying out to Maharashtra early on the Sunday morning.

"Our biggest invitation is to the people. Every citizen is becoming chief minister," Manish Sisodia said. Since getting a historic mandate yesterday, Kejriwal is urging the people of Delhi to come to his swearing-in ceremony. 

Kiran Bedi, the CM candidate of BJP, who lost even her own constituency is also among the invitees, and so in Anna Hazare. The anti-corruption crusader and Kejriwal's patron Hazare did not attend his previous oath ceremony in 2013.

It will, most definitely, be a tough task for the Delhi Police to oversee the occasion as the capacity of Ramlila Maidan is just one lakh and the attendance is expected to be much more than that.

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Another Church Attacked In Delhi Just Five Days Ahead Of Assembly Polls

Just five days ahead of the Delhi assembly elections, vandals have ransacked a church in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area today; this is the fifth incident of such kind since December last year. 

Members of the St Alphonsa's church have told the media that around three in the morning a bunch of vandals jumped in the premises of the church and broke opened the main gate. They kept ransacking the church for some time before they ran away.  

In January, three people were arrested for vandalizing a church in West Delhi's Vikaspuri area. They were arrested on the basis of the CCTV footage provided by the church. 

Delhi's Archbishop Anil JT Couto has told the reporters, "A clear pattern of orchestrated attacks is emerging as more and more churches are targeted, vandalized and set on fire."

The police have informed that there is no evidence of the arrested people having any connection with any of the extremist outfits.

A church in the Rohini area was arsoned in January earlier. The Christmas crib placed outside the building was burned to ashes. Some arsonists set fire to St Sebastian's Church in East Delhi's Dilshad Garden; traces of kerosene have been found inside the church premises.

Various Christian organizations have protested against these kinds of offensives. The issue of religious intolerance towards the Christian community has been raised in the Parliament as well.  The Home minister Rajnath Singh has ordered a special team to investigate the incident.

Experts and social scientists are not denying the seeds of religious polarization as the pools are going to be held in the capital city in five days. 

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Dates For Delhi Assembly Elections Out, Voting On 7th February, Counting On 10th

Assemble elections will be held in Delhi on February 7 and counting will be done on 10th of the same month, the Election Commission chief VS Sampath has informed the media today.

He further said that the model code of conduct for all the 70 seats comes into existence with immediate effect.

This election is being seen as a bilateral fight to get to supremacy in the country capital between a resurgent BJP, which has recently won four states back-to-back, and AAP, which is banking on the charisma of Arvind Kejriwal.

In 2013 elections no single party could garner a clear-cut majority. BJP, though, emerged as the single largest party, but it could not form a government. AAP, which came second with 28 seats, formed a government with the help of Congress; Arvind Kejriwal became the seventh CM. But Kejriwal resigned after 49 days of becoming the CM following the failure to get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed. President's rule was imposed in Delhi in February 2014.

Experts are of the opinion that Congress is no where in the competition in Delhi. 

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