New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday alleged that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is planning to arrest Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on November 2 after interrogating him in a cash laundering case associated to the alleged excise coverage rip-off. The get together additionally accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to get rid of it by placing its prime leaders behind bars.
Kejriwal has been summoned by the ED beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and is predicted to seem earlier than the company’s Delhi workplace at 11 am on November 2. This is the primary time that Kejriwal has been summoned by the ED. He was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the identical case in April.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Delhi Cabinet Minister Atishi claimed that the BJP was resorting to those techniques to focus on the AAP because it is aware of that it can’t defeat Kejriwal in elections. “There are reports that Kejriwal will be arrested on November 2. If he is arrested, it won’t be because of corruption (charges) but because he has spoken against the BJP,” she mentioned.
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Referring to the arrest of AAP’s prime management, together with Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Satyendar Jain, Atishi claimed that it solely implies that the BJP needs to complete off the AAP. Satyendar Jain has been granted bail in a cash laundering case.
“After Kejriwal is arrested, the BJP will target other leaders of the INDIA alliance and its chief ministers using the CBI and ED. Next they will target Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren since they have been unable to defeat him. Then they will target Tejashwi Yadav since they have not been able to break the alliance in Bihar. Then Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin will be targeted,” she alleged.
Atishi reiterated that AAP leaders should not petrified of going to jail and can maintain preventing to save lots of the Constitution until their final breath.
