'I have no desire to be MP'

March 25, 2014 17:59

Addressing the rally at Varanasi, Kejriwal, who is wearing the trademark AAP cap and a white shirt splattered with black ink, says, "I have no desire to become an MP. If my main aim was to become an MP, I would choose a safe seat like so many others. I only want to stop people who have been looting the country. Who doesn't like the seat of the CM?

"But I had no alternative but to quit since the promise on which I came to power -- the Jan Lokpal Bill -- was not allowed to be passed. The BJP has been calling me 'bhagoara', an absconder, but I have not fled the scene."

He then borrows from the Ramayana to illustrate how leaving the battlefield is sometimes for the greater good.

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