"The BJP leaders are going around threatening the people that they will get legislative assembly elections cancelled too by making Delhi a full Union Territory (UT) from a UT with an elected House," he said on the second and the last day of the Delhi assembly's session.
"If you will stop holding elections in the country, tear apart the Constitution and eliminate the rule by the people, this country will be finished. In your hate for Kejriwal, you have started hating the country," Kejriwal said, addressing the BJP legislators.
Kejriwal said that the BJP scuttled the civic elections in Delhi at the last moment and added that the AAP will go to court to ensure that elections are held. "We know BJP will not let MCD elections take place. We will have to take up this matter in the court of law. BJP can do whatever it wants, but the AAP will not let it sabotage democracy. We will get elections held by doing whatever it takes. The BJP has ruled the MCD for 15 years, yet it never tried to clean Delhi. If the AAP had the reins of the MCD, we would not have allowed even a single blot of dirt on Delhi."
Later, while talking to reporters, Kejriwal said Delhi will not sit silently if the BJP turns Delhi into a full UT. "People of Delhi will come on the streets against the move," he said.
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