Arvind Kejriwal to meet PM Modi today

Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, as
a courtesy call. The meeting is expected to take place at 11:00 am in
Parliament.

This will be
the first meeting between the two leaders after Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) won the Assembly elections last month.

The meeting
comes a week after the national capital saw its worst riots in more than two
decades that so far has claimed 46 lives and left more than 200 people injured.
Kejriwal had met Home Minister Amit Shah after winning the elections.

The meeting
went on for over 20 minutes at Shah’s residence at Krishna Menon Marg in New
Delhi. This was their first one-on-one meeting ever in a formal setting, an AAP
leader said.

Shah had led
the BJP offensive against Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi
Assembly polls. The AAP whiped the BJP in the elections, winning 62 of the 70
seats.

Kejriwal’s
courtesy call – he wasn’t able to meet Amit Shah when he moved to the Home
Ministry after last year’s national elections – was seen as a concerted effort
to work together with the central government for the national capital.