The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is learnt to have approached former Chief Justice of India TS Thakur for one of the three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi. However, the jurist is learnt to have turned down the request. Sources in AAP said that senior party leaders, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, recently met former CJI Thakur, who retired about a year ago, to request him to agree to contest the elections.
This isn't the first time AAP's overture to a prominent name for RS seat from its kitty has not found favour with the person concerned. The party had earlier this year approached former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan too, with Rajan telling the party that he had no plans to leave his full-time academic position at a prominent US university.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is learnt to have approached former Chief Justice of India TS Thakur for one of the three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi. However, the jurist is learnt to have turned down the request. Sources in AAP said that senior party leaders, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, recently met former CJI Thakur, who retired about a year ago, to request him to agree to contest the elections.
This isn't the first time AAP's overture to a prominent name for RS seat from its kitty has not found favour with the person concerned. The party had earlier this year approached former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan too, with Rajan telling the party that he had no plans to leave his full-time academic position at a prominent US university.