New Delhi: It will be a classic Aam Aadmi swearing-in, with parents of Delhi chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal sitting on the ground with the hoi polloi.
Only four VIP passes have been issued in the name of Anna Hazare, retd Justice Santosh Hegde, Kiran Bedi and retd Admiral L Ramdas.
All MLAs will sit on the ground with the aam aadmi in a complete negation of VVIP culture. The six ministers who will take oath will sit separately, and the swearing-in will be short and simple.
AAP leader Shazia Ilmi, who lost the elections from R K Puram, said, nearly 600 government officials and others have been invited by the Delhi government
AAP is trying to project itself as a party with a difference.
AAP volunteers and supporters are expected to reach Delhi by Friday evening to attend the Ramlila Maidan event.
The maidan has been spruced with a white cloth covering the boundary wall and the grills and huge banners of the AAP symbol—broom—erected outside.
North Delhi Municipal Corporation employees worked all night on Wednesday to clean the ground.
“We have deployed over 60 employees to clean the ground. More than 15 truckloads of earth were used to level the ground. The dais has been repaired,fissures have been filled with concrete mix and painted,” said a corporation official.
