With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoning Manish Sisodia for questioning in the excise policy case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday alleged that the summon is a ploy to arrest him because the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to prevent him from campaigning for the party in poll-bound Gujarat where AAP is giving tough fight to the saffron party.
AAP leaders on Sunday held back to back Press conference at the party’s headquarters on the issue saying the summon is part of BJP preparations to arrest him and prevent him from campaigning. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday compared his deputy and jailed Minister Satyendar Jain to Bhagat Singh and termed his Government's fight with the Centre the “second freedom struggle”.
The reactions from Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia for questioning on Monday in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped excise policy. Sisodia has been asked to appear before it at its headquarters in Delhi at 11 am on Monday.
Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi: “The jail and the gallows could not affect the solid determination of Bhagat Singh. This is the second freedom struggle. Manish and Satyendar Jain (who is in jail in a money laundering case) are today’s Bhagat Singh. After 75 years the country got an education minister who provided good education to the poor and gave them the expectation of a bright future. The blessing of crores of poor are with you.” Delhi minister Satyendar Jain is under arrest and being probed in an alleged money laundering case.
Soon after the CBI summoning Sisodia, AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh who held a press conference and claimed that the summon was a ploy to arrest Sisodia because the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to prevent the AAP leader from campaigning in Gujarat.