BJP National Spokesperson Sambit Patra said on Friday that before his arrest, Arvind Kejriwal questioned how he could be summoned as the Chief Minister and that “today his pride had a fall.”.
Speaking to ANI, Patra said, “There have been 9 summonses since October 23. Arvind Kejriwal did not remain present at any of them. He has a sense of entitlement and keeps saying that the summons is illegal and will not remain present. He keeps saying that he is the CM and how can he be summoned? Today, his pride has been broken.”
“The law of this country says that if you have broken a law and are summoned, then you have to respect the summons and remain present…,” the BJP leader said.
“It is a matter of concern that Arvind Kejriwal was not present at any summons,” he said.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonwalla alleged that the Delhi CM was paying for indulging in corruption.
He said, “AAP leaders are saying that Arvind Kejriwal is not a human, but an ideology… The ideology is that he will be corrupt and when the court takes action, he will call it an atrocity… And play the victim card… I want to ask them, is the court finishing the democracy?… The SC rejected Manish Sisodia’s bail. The SC said that there is a money trail of Rs. 338 crore. Sanjay Singh’s bail was rejected by the HC. If your teammates have been in jail for more than a year now, has the BJP done it or the Courts have done it?.. Your BFF Congress found you drowned in the Liquor scam…”
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the Delhi excise policy case on Thursday night, in which two senior AAP leaders are already in judicial custody.
He was arrested after skipping nine summonses issued against him by the Enforcement Directorate and Delhi High Court, which refused to grant him relief from any coercive action by the probe agency.
The case pertains to alleged irregularities and money laundering in framing and implementing the Delhi excise policy case 2022, which was later scrapped.
Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest came days after the ED arrested Bharat Rashta Samithi (BRS), the leader and daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, in connection with its investigation into money laundering charges linked to the now-scrapped excise policy.
Sisodia, who was the then Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, was arrested by the CBI on February 26 following several rounds of questioning. On October 5, ED arrested Sanjay Singh, who is a Rajya Sabha member.
Kejriwal’s arrest also comes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, which will be held from April 19 to June 1, as per the schedule announced by the Election Commission earlier in the month. (ANI)
