Arvind Kejriwal to shift to new home in his constituency on Friday

Former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal will shift to his new residence in his New Delhi Assembly constituency on Friday (October 4).

Kejriwal, who resigned as the Chief Minister on September 17 after getting bail in the liquor policy case, will vacate his official residence in the next two days and shift to a new home, and give up all government facilities.

The new residence for the AAP national convenor has been finalised and he will shift soon after. Earlier, Kejriwal said he would move out of the Chief Minister’s residence during Navratri.

Before becoming Delhi’s Chief Minister for the first time in December 2013, Kejriwal lived in Ghaziabad’s Kaushambi area.

As the Chief Minister, Kejriwal stayed in a house in Tilak Lane in central Delhi and after the AAP rose to power with a landslide victory in the 2015 Assembly elections, he moved to a house at 6, Flagstaff Road in the Civil Lines area of north Delhi.

Kejriwal has been an MLA from New Delhi constituency in 2013, when he defeated then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and retained the seat in 2015 and 2020.

The AAP chief was jailed in Tihar Jail for nearly six months in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi liquor policy 2021-22. He has vehemently denied the allegations and accused the BJP of a political vendetta.

Kejriwal decided to step down from the chief ministerial post, asserting that he resigned to undergo an agnipariksha (trial by fire) and that he will not return to office unless people gave him a “certificate of honesty”.

Assembly election in Delhi is due to be held in February 2025.

Following Kejriwal’s resignation, Atishi, an MLA from Kalkaji, was announced as the Chief Minister. She took office on September 21.