Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying former Jharkhand chief minister and JMM chief Hemant Soren’s arrest by the ED reveals the BJP authorities’s “anti-tribal” mindset and is an try to assault the opposition forward of the Lok Sabha elections.
Soren, the manager president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) — a member of the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc — was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday evening after greater than seven hours of questioning. He is an accused in a cash laundering case associated to alleged land fraud.
“Hemant Soren’s arrest is an attempt by the BJP-led Central government to attack the opposition before the Lok Sabha elections. I am sure that many more opposition leaders will get arrested in the next one month…,” Delhi Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Atishi stated on ‘X’.
Another AAP chief Saurabh Bharadwaj additionally alleged that leaders who don’t bow earlier than the BJP are put behind bars.
“Those whom the BJP called corrupt have become chief ministers, deputy chief ministers and ministers in BJP governments. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Ajit Pawar, Narayan Rane, Suvendu Adhikari, Chhagan Bhujbal, Pema Khandu,” stated the chief of the AAP, which is a part of the bloc shaped to taken on the BJP within the common elections.
“Those who do not bow cannot be suppressed and are not scared,” Bharadwaj stated in a put up on ‘X’ in Hindi.
AAP chief nationwide spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar on ‘X’ stated by getting Soren arrested, the BJP has shown its “anti-tribal” mindset”.
“By arresting a popular tribal chief minister of the country in a wrong case, the BJP has once again set an example of its own anti-tribal mentality,” she stated.
“This arrest, three months before the elections, clearly shows that BJP is scared of the INDIA bloc. It wants to win the elections by keeping the vocal voices of the opposition in jail,” Kakkar stated.
The ED has to date arrested 14 individuals within the case, together with 2011-batch IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan who had served because the director of the state’s Social Welfare Department and deputy commissioner of Ranchi.
(With PTI inputs)
