TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Arvind Kejriwal’s legal troubles seem far from over. While the Arun Jaitley defamation case continues to haunt the Delhi chief minister, another defamation suit might put him in more trouble. According to reports, the Delhi chief minister has been issued a bailable arrest warrant after he failed to appear before an Assam court in connection to a defamation case on Monday.
However, Kejriwal sought to excuse himself from the hearing due to the high-octane campaigning for the Delhi municipal polls. “He (Kejriwal) cannot leave Delhi to attend the court hearing because of the civic election and the nature of his work because he is Chief Minister of Delhi,” Kejriwal’s lawyer as saying.
The defamation case was filed by Assam BJP leader Surya Rongphar for his tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the December 2016 tweet, Kejriwal had questioned the academic degree possessed by the prime minister. he has tweeted, “Modiji 12 pass hain. Uske baad ki degree farzi hai (Modi ji has studied only up to 12th standard. Yet, his degree is fake).” Rongphar has said that the comment made by Kejriwal was “baseless and misleading. The report also added that the next hearing on the case will be on 8 May.
