New Delhi: Ahead of his questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in reference to the excise coverage case, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday reiterated that if he was ‘corrupt’ then nobody on the earth was ‘trustworthy’. Releasing a video assertion, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have been demanding his arrest and that if the get together had ‘ordered’ the probe company to arrest him, it can’t refuse to take action. Kejriwal has been requested to be current on the CBI headquarters at 11 am on Sunday to reply queries of the investigating group.
Hours earlier than his questioning, Arvind Kejriwal attacked the BJP and mentioned that in 30 years of its rule in Gujarat, the situation of not a single faculty could possibly be improved, whereas the AAP authorities in Delhi turned across the authorities colleges.
A brief classroom needed to be arrange when the prime minister (Narendra Modi) visited a faculty in Gujarat, he alleged.
“You (BJP) say that I am corrupt. I was a Commissioner in the Income Tax department, I could have earned crores if I wanted to… If Arvind Kejriwal is corrupt then there is no one in this world who is honest,” the Delhi CM mentioned.
अब आप जो मर्ज़ी कर लीजिए। अब आप रोक नहीं पायेंगे। अब भारत दुनिया का नंबर वन देश बन के रहेगा। pic.twitter.com/xLBloVKg7o
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) April 16, 2023
According to officers, the CBI might ask Arvind Kejriwal concerning the Delhi excise coverage formulation course of, particularly relating to the ‘untraceable’ file which was earlier slated to be put earlier than the Delhi Council of Ministers.
Officials mentioned the CBI might also quiz the AAP chief on the statements of different accused the place they’ve indicated the way wherein coverage was allegedly influenced to favour some liquor businessmen and the ‘South liquor foyer’.
In addition, the company might also search his position within the formulation of the excise coverage and his information concerning the alleged affect being solid by the merchants and ‘South foyer’ members, the officers mentioned.
He might also be requested if he was concerned within the formulation of the coverage earlier than it was given approval, they mentioned.
Kejriwal is being summoned as a witness and isn’t an accused within the excise coverage case wherein his former deputy Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26.
It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The coverage was later scrapped.
Earlier on Saturday, Kejriwal mentioned that the AAP has emerged as a ray of hope for the nation and claimed that’s the reason why efforts are being made to trample it. In his first response after being served a discover by the CBI to seem earlier than it on Sunday, he mentioned he shall be current earlier than the probe company.
Addressing a press convention, he mentioned that no different get together has been focused within the final 75 years because the AAP. He additionally alleged that the companies have been torturing individuals to extract false confessions.
I have obtained summons from CBI. I will definitely honour it. My press convention on the identical. https://t.co/JwFtwb5Kfq
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) April 15, 2023
Kejriwal mentioned he’ll sue the CBI and ED officers for alleged perjury and submitting false affidavits in courts.
