Delhi Cabinet ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain on Tuesday night resigned from Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Cabinet. CM Arvind Kejriwal has accepted their resignation. While deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia dealt with the training ministry, Satyendar Jain sorted Health, PWD and jail ministries.
Portfolios of Manish Sisodia will probably be given to cupboard ministers Kailash Gahlot and Raaj Kumar Anand. No new minister will probably be sworn in as of now, mentioned sources.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the bail plea of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who’s in CBI custody in reference to the excise coverage case. The bench noticed that simply because the incident occurred in Delhi, Sisodia can not come to the apex court docket straight as he has his cures earlier than the trial court docket involved in addition to the Delhi High Court.
Jain is at present lodged in Tihar jail in reference to a cash laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He was arrested in May 30, 2022.
AAP leaders have been terming this a political witchhunt and termed Manish Sisodia’s arrest ‘soiled politics’ whereas accusing the BJP and the Union authorities of hatching a conspiracy to entice him and demanded that former LG Anil Baijal even be probed since he had authorized the excise coverage.
