Delhi bill in Parliament

Statehood to Delhi

In the campaign for the Lok Sabha polls last year, the BJP promised to declare Delhi a full state if the party came to power, noting that it will help ensure proper coordination between various agencies. 

The BJP had swept the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi winning all seven seats with huge margins.

However, the BJP party did not clearly spell out its position on the statehood issue in its vision document released ahead of the Assembly polls in February. In its manifestoes for previous Assembly polls, the BJP party had promised full statehood.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that full statehood rights could not be given to Delhi unless there was general consensus in the country over the issue as the matter concerned the national capital. 

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Recently, Arun Jaitley made a statement; corruption has been removed from India's political dictionary under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

It looks like Arun Jaitley doesn't read newspaper or doesn't watch television. Recently, there was an incident in Delhi. A policeman threw brick at a young woman; that woman refused to give Rs 200 bribe to that policeman; policeman got angry and hurt that woman. So, corruption does exist in India; and common citizen directly gets affected by corruption. 

The fact is, common citizen are not directly affected by mega corruption; but they do get affected by this corruption on daily basis. 

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For current constitutional crisis in Delhi, Arun Jaitley offered a very good solution. Arun did help a lot for Arvind.  Arvind Kejriwal should seriously consider Arun Jaitley's suggestion and act on it.

Arvind Kejriwal should take action to build up general consensus in the entire country. 

Just like Arvind Kejriwal, every Chief Ministers in the country have issue with the center. So, Arvind Kejriwal could meet with them and build general consensus.

The truth is; the parliament in India has the supreme power. As per Constitution of India, the President or the Prime Minister or any Minister; nobody has any power or authority. So, Narendra Modi or Rajnath Singh or Arun Jaitley have no authority to give or deny full statehood to Delhi.

Only Parliament could give or deny full statehood to Delhi. So, Arvind Kejriwal needs numbers. 

So in India, numbers do make sense. Arvind Kejriwal needs to collect numbers to get full statehood to Delhi.

On his own, Arvind Kejriwal has 4 MPs. Other MPs are 257; Arvind Kejriwal could get the support of that 257 MPs.

In fact, Arvind could tap into BJP MPs also. Arvind could easily get all 7 Delhi MPs. Arvind could ask people to go to Delhi MP house and ask them to support full statehood for Delhi.

Out of 282 BJP MPs, only a few got ministers post; there are more dissatisfied MPs. For instance, Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi and many others; Arvind could give it a try.

So, in India, it is just number game. Get the number and get things done.