New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders staged a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar on Sunday in protest against the arrest of party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, In connection with a money-laundering case linked to a liquor excise policy scam. The Delhi CM was sent to judicial custody until April 15 and is lodged in Tihar Jail.
Delhi Minister Atishi alleged that the central agencies are acting like political weapons of the BJP. She claimed that the money trail in this liquor policy scam has been done from liquor trader Sharat Reddy to the BJP.
Speaking to ANI Atishi said, “People of Delhi love Arvind Kejriwal. They don’t think of him as a CM but as their son, or brother. All want the bail for Arvind Kejriwal. BJP’s ED and CBI haven’t been able to show a single penny of liquor scam from the leaders of AAP. If there is any money trail in this issue, it’s from liquor trader Sharat Reddy to the BJP.”
The Delhi Chief Minister was arrested on March 21 by a team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) on corruption charges related to the Delhi excise policy case. The move came after Kejriwal skipped multiple summons by the investigation agency, nine in total, calling them “illegal.”
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