Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has resigned after failing to introduce the anti-graft Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi legislature, reports BBC.
He made the move after his push for the Jan Lokpal Bill was blocked by law-makers from the Congress and the BJP.
Kejriwal has sent his resignation to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung shortly after a meeting of the cabinet, according to PTI.
Opposition politicians argued it was unconstitutional to introduce legislation that did not have the approval of the federal government.
“They know that if this law is brought in, their leaders will end up in jail,” Kejriwal said to his supporters at his party office this evening.
Earlier, in the Delhi Assembly, he declared: “I will give up the chief minister's office not once but 1000 times to fight against corruption.”
Arvind Kejriwal, a former civil servant, was sworn in as the chief minister of India's capital on December 28 last year.
Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party won 28 of Delhi's 70 assembly seats in elections held in last December.
