Excise policy: BJP protests in different parts of Delhi, demands Kejriwal’s resignation

The Delhi BJP on Wednesday staged protests in different parts of the city demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the now scrapped excise policy of the AAP government. The saffron party on Tuesday termed the resignation of Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain from the Delhi cabinet amid corruption allegations as a “victory for truth and party workers”, while claiming that the chief minister would also have to resign.

Hours before the news of the two ministers’ resignation hit the headlines, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had said it would raise awareness about a “conspiracy” hatched to “toy” with the future of the youth in Delhi. “From liquor stores.

On Wednesday, BJP members staged a protest near ITO roundabout and demanded that the Chief Minister of Delhi should resign.

Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva asked if his ministers were “innocent” according to Kejriwal, why the Supreme Court did not give them any relief and their resignations were accepted. In the last eight years, many ministers of the AAP government have resigned. Most of them are on “corruption charges”. He said that Kejriwal should resign on moral grounds.

Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri also hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleging that Kejriwal was the mastermind of the entire excise policy scam.

“Why the resignation was not taken from Satyendar Jain for the last nine months and it was suddenly taken from Manish Sisodia. This is the biggest scam and we will continue our protest till the Chief Minister resigns. In Tihar Jail in a money laundering case.

Sisodia was sent to five-day CBI custody by a special court here.

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