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I am not trying to topple myself: Kejriwal

New Delhi:  “I am not trying to be toppled”, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said amid growing confrontation between him and the Congress party over a key anti-graft legislation.Kejriwal, who heads the minority Aam

Asked if the fact that the Congress could pull the plug anytime weighed on his mind, he replied, “That is their problem. If they have a problem why did they support us?”

Responding to the perception that some of his actions were calculated to provoke the Congress to withdraw its support, the AAP leader said, “No, no why should I do that ?

”They had prior knowledge that we will do this. If they thought that we will not open corruption files of the previous(Congress) government and we will not investigate into them, it was their mistake because they did not know whom they were supporting,” he said.

Kejriwal said that his government would investigate every single case of potential corruption that may have taken place during the 15-year rule of the Congress led by Sheila Dikshit.

Describing himself as a small person, Kejriwal said that he and his colleagues had quit their careers to plunge into politics in order to rid the country of corruption.

Most of his staff were drawing a token salary of one rupee.