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  Kejriwal on Wednesday said his party is following “true Hindutva” Delhi Chief Minister  Arvind Kejriwal  on Wednesday said his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is following “true Hindutva” as it wants to unite 130 crore people of the country and take the nation on the path of development. Dividing people in the name of religion, engineering riots and committing atrocities on Dalits is not Hindutva but to unite one human being with another is, he said in a veiled attack on the BJP while replying to a question at a summit organised by news channel Times Now. Kejriwal also dismissed as “absolutely wrong” the charge that he is playing soft Hindutva card for votes in the run-up to assembly polls in four states with his recent visit to the Ram temple in  Ayodhya  and his government’s approval to the Tirth Yatra Yojana for senior citizens in Delhi. The AAP is gearing up to contest assembly polls on all seats in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa and Uttarkhand due to be held early next...

Former Punjab minister and SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia withdrew his defamation suit after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal offered written apology over 'unfounded' allegations levelled for years   Facing a political turmoil at home, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal appears to have decided to take a step back from his past brand of combative politics and settle the attendant defamation cases -- in particular, the one initiated by former Punjab minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia. After Kejriwal tendered a writtem apology to Majithia for alleging the latter was involved in drug trade in Punjab, the SAD leader said he would withdraw his defamation suit against the chief minister. However, Kejriwal still has to contend with a defamation suit filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, among other cases. Kejriwal withdrew his allegations and an application regarding this was filed in a trial court in Amri...

On Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote to Lt Governor Anil Baijal asking him to order bureaucrats to resume work The tussle between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and government officers intensified on Tuesday, with the latter demanding action against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia in the case related to an alleged assault of Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash at the CM's official residence. Meanwhile, bureaucrats continued to boycott meetings even as the Delhi government made concerted efforts to end the crisis. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday wrote to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, urging him to order officers to resume work. In his letter, Sisodia asserted that if service matters were under the Delhi government's ambit, "rule of law" would have been followed. "If services were our subject, we would have certainly ensured that the rule of law was followed and the constitutional scheme of f...