<div>The minority Aam Aadmi Party government on crossed the first hurdle in the Delhi Assembly when its confidence motion sailed through easily with the backing of the members of Congress, JD(U) and an independent.<br /><br />The motion moved by PWD minister Manish Sisodia was carried after a four-and-a-half-hour debate at the end of which Chief Minster Arvind Kejriwal appealed to the members to decide "on which side they are".<br /><br />"I want to present three issues. Delhi's aam aadmi (common man) has taken the lead in telling the country as to which direction the national politics should go.<br /><br />"They should also decide as to which side they are in the fight between truth and honesty in politics and whether they want to participate in it," the Chief Minister said, in his 25-minute speech winding up the debate.<br /><br />Promising to take stringent action against anyone corrupt whether in the previous Congress government, MCDs controlled by the BJP and his government, he said he was not seeking support of the members for his party or the government but for the issues facing Delhi.<br /><br />At the end of the debate, pro-tem Speaker Matin Ahmad asked those in favour to stand up followed by those against.<br /><br />Later, he declared the motion as passed and congratulated the Chief Minister before adjourning the house.<br /><br />28 AAP members along with seven of Congress, a lone JD(U) member and an independent stood in support while 31 members of BJP and one member of its ally Akali Dal stood against it.<br /><br />The fate of the motion was a foregone conclusion after Congress leader Arvinder Lovely declared that his party's seven members would support the government and said the backing would continue as long as the regime works in the interest of the people, even for five years.<br /><br />However, the BJP opposed the confidence motion and accused Kejriwal of compromising with the "corrupt" Congress for power and becoming silent on the corruption of the previous Congress government. <br /><br />Party leader Harsh Vardhan, in his speech, launched a scathing attack on Kejriwal and his party for taking Congress support to form the government.<br /><br />When Kejriwal had said that he will neither give nor take support from the corrupt Congress party, everyone had respect for him. He had even made strong statements like pledging not to enter into a coalition with Congress on a TV channel.But when such a pledge take in the name of his son is broken, it raises questions, he said.<br /><br />"A party which Kejriwal used to refer as the most corrupt party, the party against which he contested elections, the party against which he said that if elected to power he will send corrupt ministers to jail, and will unearth all unfair trades of that government, he has taken support of that party.<br /><br />"Today the country wants to know what was his compulsion to form a coalition with the same party," said Vardhan.<br /><br />Attacking AAP's decisions on water and electricity soon after coming to power, Vardhan said the urgency shown by AAP in implementing populist measures is not reflected in taking on the corrupt.<br /><br />He also claimed that people with the cleanest image got the maximum votes.<br /><br />"People gave maximum seats to the most honest party (BJP), which emerged as the largest party.<br /><br />"It is an irony that the party that was ruling for 15 years lost the power, the one which won the highest number of seats is sitting in opposition and the one that stood second has formed the government," he said.<br /><br />(Agencies)</div>
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