Within minutes of the Supreme Court rejecting Manish Sisodia’s bail plea on Tuesday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accepted the resignations of two ministers, Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, and forwarded them to the Lt. Governor for approval. There are studies that two AAP MLAs, Saurav Bhardwaj and Atishi, could also be inducted as ministers, to ease the work load on different ministers.
With Saytendar Jain in Tihar jail for the reason that final 9 months, Manish Sisodia as Deputy Chief Minister was dealing with 18 departments, which included Finance, Planning, Public Works, Labour, Excise, Education, Technical & Higher Education, Vigilance, Tourism, Home, Health, Urban Development, Irrigation and Flood Control, Power, Water and Industry. Jain was arrested in May final 12 months in a cash laundering case, whereas Sisodia is now in CBI custody in the Delhi liquor excise scam.
In the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha advised Sisodia’s counsel to strategy both the trial court docket or Delhi High Court for bail.
The bench advised Sisodia’s counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi: “This is a case under Prevention of Corruption Act. Can you not make the same arguments before the Delhi High Court, which is available to you as a forum to seek similar reliefs? Go to the High Court, which is bound by our judgements…. You can raise all these arguments before the competent court. Otherwise, what will happen is that we will be the first forum for entertaining bail petitions. An incident happening in Delhi does not mean, you will rush to the Supreme Court.. You have the full remedy of moving the competent court and the Delhi High Court. We should not be interfering in that process.”
Meanwhile, CBI has indicated that it intends to hunt extension of five-day remand for Sisodia. Soon after the apex court docket turned down Sisodia’s bail plea, the deputy chief minister’s three-page letter in Hindi was launched to the media.
In his resignation letter, Sisodia wrote: “ They tried hard to force me to leave you (Kejriwal). They even threatened and coerced me. When I did not bow down, they arrested me. But I am not the first person in the world who has gone to jail while fighting on the path of truth. ..All these charges levelled against me are fake and it is nothing more than a conspiracy hatched by cowards, who are afraid of Arvind Kejriwal’s politics of truth. I am not their target, but you.”
Praising the chief minister, Sisodia wrote: “Arvind Kejriwal has become a beacon of hope for people who are faced with financial crisis, poverty, unemployment, price rise and corruption. Your words are not viewed as ‘jumlas’ … The prayers of lakhs of government school children and their parents are with me. The biggest thing that I have is the blessings of thousands of teachers who brought about a revolution in the field of education in Delhi.” He ended the letter with the well-known revolutionary couplet, “Sarfaroshi ki tamnna ab hamare dil me hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baajoo-e-qatil me hai.”
The query arises whether or not each Sisodia and Jain had given their resignation letters to Kejriwal in advance, as each have been accepted by the chief minister quickly after the apex court docket order. It is stunning that Kejriwal had not eliminated Jain from his cupboard although he has been in jail for the final 9 months. On the opposite hand, Sisodia’s resignation was accepted inside 48 hours of his arrest. Will Kejriwal now make it a problem of morality and go to the folks?
Senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad had completed his press convention on Tuesday and was leaving when he acquired details about the acceptance of the resignations of each ministers. He returned and commented that it was the victory of his get together’s employees in Delhi that one minister is in jail and the opposite is in CBI custody.
AAP chief Sanjay Singh sought to play the sufferer card and mentioned that Sisodia has been punished for revamping Delhi’s schooling system. AAP leaders mentioned, each Sisodia and Jain will not be ministers any extra however the get together stands solidly behind them.
On one hand, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Telangana CM Okay. Chandrashekhar Rao and former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray have publicly supported AAP, describing Sisodia’s arrest as a part of what they referred to as ‘political vendetta’, however however, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate raised the query why Kejriwal and his associates have been silent when Congress chief Pawan Khera was arrested at Delhi airport.
Whatever CBI or the courts could say about Manish Sisodia, Kejriwal and different opposition events will now sharpen their assaults on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani. They will allege that the opposition is being muzzled and Modi is making an attempt to protect his mates. But the primary query is: Why did Sisodia and Jain resign?
Till now, Aam Aadmi Party had been saying there was no necessity for the ministers to resign, even when they’re in custody. Satyendar Jain is in jail since 9 months, however his resignation was by no means sought nor did he tender his resignation. In Sisodia’s case, the AAP management waited for the Supreme Court listening to, and when the apex court docket denied bail, the announcement of resignations of each the ministers was made. Clearly, there was no approach out for the ministers in custody, however to resign.
For Kejriwal, there may be fresh trouble brewing. Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot is going through the sword of CBI probe in the DTC bus buy case. On Tuesday, CBI sleuths went to Nand Nagri DTC bus depot in connection with the probe which was accepted by the Lt. Governor in August final 12 months.
Secondly, the Delhi liquor excise scam has its fallout in Punjab, the place Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s authorities had applied the brand new liquor excise coverage. Opposition leaders in Punjab have identified that the Punjab excise coverage is much like that of Delhi, and it appeared to have been drafted by Manish Sisodia and his crew. Online licence renewal kinds that have been posted on the web site of Punjab excise division’s web site have been instantly eliminated.
Liquor merchants and opposition leaders had been opposing the brand new excise coverage. Both Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP have demanded a CBI probe into Punjab excise coverage case. BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa had drawn the eye of CBI and ED in September final 12 months alleging a scam. He had alleged that the Punjab excise minister had gone to Delhi and there was conferences in Sisodia’s residence to draft the excise coverage.
Sirsa alleged that the coverage was formulated in such a way that the wholesale commerce was given to solely two events. In his letter to CBI, Sirsa had demanded that case be filed towards 14 individuals together with Raghav Chadha, Manish Sisodia, Vijay Nair, and AAP MLA from SAS Nagar Kulwant Singh. Sirsa alleged that corporations which were blacklisted are going to get liquor licences in Punjab.
If AAP ministers and leaders in Punjab face CBI motion, because it occurred in Delhi, it may change into tough for Kejriwal to provide a reputable reply. The sudden withdrawal of on-line licence renewal kinds from Punjab excise division’s web site has already led to suspicions. The opposition in Punjab is certain to make it a problem.
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