No Intentions To Run For Delhi Chief Minister Post: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Asked if Hardeep Singh Puri will run for Delhi Chief Minister's post, he told the media, "I have no such intentions."

Assembly elections in Delhi are due early next year and the current Civil Aviation Minister of India and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in India, Hardeep Singh Puri, has denied his intentions to run for the post of the chief minister.

New Delhi: Assembly elections in Delhi are due early next year and the current Civil Aviation Minister of India and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in India, Hardeep Singh Puri, has denied the intentions to run for the post of the chief minister. Asked if he will run for Delhi Chief Minister's post, Puri told the media, "I have no such intentions. I was a bureaucrat and now I am a minister. The party (BJP) has a well-defined leadership in Delhi. There are several leaders in Delhi who are born and brought up here and are senior BJP leaders. I have no such intentions (to run for the CM's post). I am happy where I am." The BJP had placed its bets on Harsh Vardhan during the 2013 assembly elections, while former IPS officer Kiran Bedi as its CM face in 2015. Taking to Twitter, the Union Minister also denounced the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi for its "obstructionist irresponsible attitude on every issue pertaining to the welfare of the people in the national capital". "It kept delaying the process of delineation of unauthorised colonies on various pretexts," Puri wrote on the micro-blogging site. In another post, he wrote, "For many years we were told that the process of delineation of unauthorised colonies of Delhi was a complicated and long process. Several deadlines were missed. We have now decided to fast track this process to be completed in three months." He further stated that the same "obstructionist attitude is evident as far as Delhi's urban mobility infrastructure is concerned." "Rather than strengthening the existing urban mobility infrastructure like metro and buses in Delhi, the local government is resorting to election gimmicks," he added while criticising the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government. "We are not against offering benefits to citizens, but firmly believe that if DTC had full fleet of 11,000 buses instead of just 4000 buses, the benefit to the citizens would have been more pronounced," he said. (with ANI inputs)