President of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva on Thursday demanded the resignation of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal following his arrest in the Delhi excise case even as the Aam Aadmi Party insisted that he will stay in the post.

“Arrest of Kejriwal symbolises the defeat of corruption, and now Kejriwal should resign immediately. It is an insult to constitutional norms for leaders of the Kejriwal party to say that Kejriwal will run the government from jail,” said Sachdeva.

Leader of opposition in Delhi assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said Kejriwal has lost the moral and constitutional right to remain in the office of the chief minister. “Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by ED and he no longer has any moral or constitutional right to remain in his post. Running the government from jail after Kejriwal’s arrest is not constitutional.