n The CBI has summoned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia asking him to appear before it for questioning at 11 AM on Monday in connection with a corruption case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.
Sisodia is one of the 15 accused named by the agency in its First Information Report (FIR) registered on August 17, alleging multiple irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the now-withdrawn excise policy.
Sisodia said he will appear before the CBI and give full cooperation to the agency, while AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh claimed that the summon was a ploy to arrest Sisodia because the BJP wants to prevent the AAP leader from campaigning in Gujarat.
“The CBI raid was conducted at my house for 14 hours, nothing came out. Searched my bank locker, nothing came out in it. They did not find anything in my village. Now they have called me to CBI headquarters at 11 AM tomorrow. I will go and give my full cooperation. Satyameva Jayate,” Sisodia tweeted on Sunday.
Standing by his partymen, AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal compared Sisodia and jailed Minister Satyendar Jain to Bhagat Singh and termed his Government’s fight with the Centre the “second freedom struggle”. “Jail bars and hanging noose could not deter Bhagat Singh’s resolute intentions. This is the second fight for freedom. Manish and Satyendar are today’s Bhagat.