A PIL has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking removal of Arvind Kejriwal from the post of Chief Minister of Delhi. Kejriwal has been arrested by Enforcement Directorate in the liquor policy case. Hearing of ED's application seeking his remand is currently underway at city's Rouse Avenue Court.

The plea has been moved by one Surjit Singh Yadav, a Delhi resident claiming to be a farmer and social worker. He says that a Chief Minister accused of a financial scandal should not be permitted to continue in public office.

Yadav further says that Kejriwal's continuation on the post will not only lead to obstruction of due process of law and disrupt the course of Justice, but also would lead to breakdowr of the constitutional machinery in the State as Kejriwal does not satisfy most of the limbs of Article 163 and 164 of the Constitution of India owing to his incarceration, as reported by LiveLaw.

Yadav further says that Kejriwal's continuation on the post will not only lead to obstruction of due process of law and disrupt the course of Justice, but also would lead to breakdown of the constitutional machinery in the State as Kejriwal does not satisfy most of the limbs of Article 163 and 164 of the Constitution of India owing to his incarceration.

Notably, AAP Ministers have been making statements in the media that Kejriwal will not resign from the post and if need be, he will run the government from inside the prison.

Yadav says that a jailed CM would be incapable of transacting any business that the law enjoins upon him and if he is allowed to do so, any material, irrespective of its secretive nature, would have to be scanned thoroughly by the prison authorities before it reaches Kejriwal's hands and such an act would amount to direct breach of oath of secrecy administered to the CM under the Third Schedule of the Constitution