Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare on Saturday congratulated his one-time protege Arvind Kejriwal on becoming the seventh chief minister of Delhi with a message that the ‘ultimate aim of politics is to serve the country’.
He said he could not attend the swearing-in ceremony because of ill-health.
Hazare also wrote a letter to Kejriwal congratulating him and his Cabinet colleagues on taking charge of Delhi.
‘We have worked together for many years.... I congratulate you for taking the oath of chief minister. I also congratulate others taking oath with you today,” he told reporters at his village Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashtra.
45-year-old Kejriwal, whose AAP rewrote the grammar of politics in Delhi, was on Saturday sworn in as chief minister at the historic Ramlila Maidan in the national capital.
Hazare’s massive rallies earlier calling for the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill at the very same venue saw Kejriwal coming into limelight as a national anti-corruption champion before he took a plunge into mainstream politics calling for a ‘systemic change’.
He said he could not attend the swearing-in ceremony because of ill-health.
Hazare also wrote a letter to Kejriwal congratulating him and his Cabinet colleagues on taking charge of Delhi.
‘We have worked together for many years.... I congratulate you for taking the oath of chief minister. I also congratulate others taking oath with you today,” he told reporters at his village Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashtra.
45-year-old Kejriwal, whose AAP rewrote the grammar of politics in Delhi, was on Saturday sworn in as chief minister at the historic Ramlila Maidan in the national capital.
Hazare’s massive rallies earlier calling for the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill at the very same venue saw Kejriwal coming into limelight as a national anti-corruption champion before he took a plunge into mainstream politics calling for a ‘systemic change’.