Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal may include in his cabinet Kapil Mishra as a new Law Minister. Jal Board Vice Chairman Kapil Mishra is will take the place of Aam Aadmi Party leader Jitender Singh Tomar resigned from the post over allegations in the fake degree row.
Mishra is an AAP MLA from Delhi’s Karawal Nagar constituency. He has worked for several non governmental organisations like Greenpeace, Amnesty International. He was the one of the first people to protest against the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Meanwhile, Tomar is being questioned in Faizabad where he allegedly got a fake BSC degree for himself. Tomar was arrested on Tuesday and remanded to four-day police custody by a city court hours.
Investigators said that an FIR was registered and the Law Minister was arrested after nearly a month-long investigation established that the documents he submitted in 2011 to register with the Bar Council of Delhi were fake.
Claiming that there was nothing wrong in his degree, Tomar said he quit “on grounds of morality. I will fight this case through and win. After this, I will work for the party.”
The arrest came in the midst of a raging battle between the AAP government and Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung over the powers of the city government, giving a new political twist to the unsavoury fight. The AAP has accused the Centre of trying to destablilise the Delhi government.
Stung by the arrest, AAP unleashed a stinging attack on the Modi government accusing it of political vendetta and creating an “Emergency-like” situation in Delhi to avert the city government’s crackdown on corruption. AAP also alleged that the arrest “conspiracy” was hatched in the Union Home Minister’s office at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party would not be cowed down but fight back.
