New Delhi: ThoughDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is presumably quite busy preparing for the upcoming elections next year, he took some time out of his jam-packed schedule and informed one concerned social media user that he has taken his muffler off a long time ago. “It’s cold. Please take care, everybody,” read Kejriwal’s Christmas tweet in reply to a question posed on Twitter. “You didn’t notice,” he tweeted. The Twitterati asked Delhi CM about his muffler.
मफ़्लर बहुत पहले निकल चुका है। आप लोगों ने ध्यान नहीं दिया। ठंड बहुत ज़्यादा है। सब लोग अपना ख्याल रखें। 😊 https://t.co/XUEeZe7wt0
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 25, 2019
He and his muffle debuted at the same time — in 2013 when he was running his campaign for the first time for Delhi CM. He was unmistakably spotted with a muffler. Then he became the CM and relinquished. But neither he nor his muffler could ever be faded into oblivion.
Delhi CM was suffering from a persistent chronic cough problem for years together. He went to Bengaluru for naturopathy treatment several times and before people actually noticed, the muffler vanished.
ठंड आ गयी है। मफ़्लर निकल गया। आप भी अपना ख़याल रखें।
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 8, 2016
Kejriwal’s muffler also became a political prop as he was referred to as the muffler man. He himself made fun of his mufflers when in 2015, the CBI had raided the Delhi Secretariat. “Recently a raid was conducted by Modiji. Nothing was found. My office was recently raided. If they raid my house, they will find nothing else, but only 4 unaccounted mufflers,” the CM had said.
Meanwhile, Delhi witnessed the longest cold day spell in December — the mercury on Wednesday reaching 5.4 degree Celsius. “Delhi so far has recorded longest and extremely cold day spell in December month, since 1997,” the IMD said.