The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Legislator from Kalkaji on Thursday claimed that the Centre plans to rake up a three-year-old case to implicate Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
During a media briefing, Atishi said that the Centre had given a mandate to all its investigative agencies — Income Tax, Enforcement Directorate, Delhi Police and CBI — to start preparing "fake" cases to get Sisodia arrested.
She claimed that Satyendar Jain, who had various portfolios, including health and power, was arrested in a case by the Enforcement Directorate "without any new proof".
Atishi showed a purported document in which the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) had sought additional details and documents from Delhi BJP leaders Harish Khurana and Neelkant Bakshi regarding a complaint filed by them.
In their complaint, the duo had alleged that Sisodia and Jain were involved in a scam of Rs 2000 crore in construction of classrooms and buildings. It was filed on July 2, 2019 with the DCP, New Delhi, who had forwarded it to the ACB. “Where was this case for the last three years? Nothing happened in this case since all the agencies know that there is no corruption. Why is the Centre after AAP MLAs?" she asked.
She said in January, we had said Jain is going to be arrested. “CM Kejriwal had predicted his arrest a few months back and that is what happened. Now we have learnt Sisodia is going to be arrested," she said.
“The BJP doesn’t want the underprivileged to receive good education and healthcare which is why it has started a witch hunt to arrest Deputy CM Manish Sisodia after Health Minister Satyendar Jain,” said Atishi.
“It is AAP’s open challenge to the BJP — every time they register a fake case against an AAP Leader, we will make sure we defeat them in an election,” said Atishi.
“It is not the first time that the BJP has tried to do this. Between 2012 and 2020, more than 140 cases have been filed by the Central Government on Legislators from the AAP. Cases have also been filed against 52 MLAs of our party,” alleged Atishi.