Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday mentioned he’ll fully cooperate with the CBI that has summoned him for questioning in the excise coverage case, and asserted that he doesn’t care if he has to go to jail over “false allegations”.
Mr. Sisodia, who additionally holds the Finance portfolio in the Delhi Cabinet, was initially summoned final Sunday however he sought deferment of his questioning citing the continuing Budget train, following which, the CBI had requested him to seem on February 26.
In a tweet in Hindi, Mr. Sisodia mentioned he’ll fully cooperate with the probe.
“Today, I am going to the CBI. Will fully cooperate in the probe. I have the love of lakhs of children and crores of countrymen with me. Even if I have to go to jail for a few months, I do not care. We are followers of Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh died for the country. If I have to go to jail over such false allegations, it is a small thing,” he mentioned.
AAP nationwide spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj mentioned Mr. Sisodia is the longer term nationwide Education Minister.
“Arvind Kejriwal is the new challenge for the BJP and the PM. The danger is not from Rahul Gandhi but from Arvind Kejriwal that’s why they are after our party. They raided his house, office bank locker and even his village but nothing was found”. “He is the future national education minister and that’s why they are scared of him but if he goes to jail today his route to national politics will open and the nation will see him as the future education minister at national level,” he mentioned.
He asserted that they had been prepared for all types of arrests and alleged atrocities inflicted by the Centre.
