Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal meets Sharad Pawar in Mumbai

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal met Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on ThursdayKejriwal who is on a twoday visit to Mumbai was accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann during his meeting with Pawar at Y B Chavan Centre in south MumbaiKejriwal and his party comrade and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday eveningThe two CMs on Wednesday met Shiv Sena UBT president Uddhav Thackeray at the latters residence here to seek support for the AAPs fight against the Union governments ordinance for the control of services in DelhiAfter meeting Thackeray Kejriwal claimed the ordinance means the Narendra Modi government does not believe in the Supreme CourtHe also said state governments were being toppled by using the CBI and the EDAlso Read Centre should be called opposition not us Uddhav Thackeray slams BJP over ordinance rowThe Centre last Friday promulgated an ordinance to create an authority for the transfer and posting of GroupA officers in Delhi with the AAP government calling the move a deception with the Supreme Court verdict on control of servicesThe ordinance which came a week after the Supreme Court handed over the control of services in Delhi excluding police public order and land to the elected government seeks to set up a National Capital Civil Service Authority for transfer of and disciplinary proceedings against GroupA officers from the DANICS cadreBacking Kejriwal Thackeray said the Supreme Courts order was important for democracyWe have come together to defeat those against democracy If we miss the train this time then there will be no democracy in the country We have come together to save the country and the Constitution Thackeray saidOn Tuesday Kejriwal and Mann met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata as part of their nationwide tour to garner support for the AAPs fight against the Centres ordinanceThe Delhi Chief Minister on Tuesday embarked on a nationwide tour to seek support from the Opposition parties against the ordinance brought by the central government on the transfers and postings of bureaucrats in the national capitalThe Aam Aadmi Party AAP national convenor accused the Centre of taking away the rights of the people of Delhi and said that the ordinance should not be allowed to pass in Rajya SabhaThis comes after the Union Government on May 19 brought an ordinance to notify rules for the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi GNCTD regarding the transfer posting vigilance and other incidental mattersThe ordinance was brought to amend the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act 1991 and it circumvents the Supreme Court judgement in the Centre vs Delhi caseWith inputs from PTI