‘Friends missing each other’: BJP says Kejriwal will accompany Jain and Sisodia to jail as CM gets CBI summons. top marks

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched an attack against the Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor soon after the CBI summoned him on April 16 for questioning in the liquor policy scam case.

He is being questioned in the same case in which former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI in February this year. Pointing to this, the BJP said on Friday that Kejriwal would soon join him in jail. The AAP, however, alleged that the BJP was plotting to arrest Kejriwal in a “fabricated” excise policy case, and insisted that his fight against corruption would not be hindered.

Here are the top developments:

• The day is not far when “three friends” who miss each other – Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain – will sit in the same barrack of Tihar Jail, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said at a press conference. Kejriwal has always been saying that Kejriwal is the mastermind of the liquor scam, in which his minister Manish Sisodia is in jail.
• The Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 was scrapped by the Kejriwal government in July 2022 soon after LG VK Saxena recommended a CBI inquiry into alleged irregularities in its implementation.
• While Manish Sisodia was arrested in February this year, Satyendar Jain, a former minister in the Kejriwal government, has also been in jail for almost a year since his arrest by the ED in a money laundering case.
• Hours after Kejriwal was summoned, the AAP termed the probe into the excise policy by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as a “move by the Modi government to obstruct the good work of the Delhi government in the health and education sectors”.
• CBI sources said that there are allegations that the money raised by the AAP for election purposes by twisting the policy in favor of some liquor dealers and the south lobby is being probed as part of the money trail. is under the.
• In the light of the now closed excise policy case, Kejriwal has been asked to appear at the CBI headquarters on April 16 at 11 am to answer questions from the probe team.
• The AAP termed the summons as a desperate attempt by the BJP to silence its protest. AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said on Friday, ‘Kejriwal exposed the alleged links between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani during the assembly session. The day he did it, I told him that now he will be on BJP’s hitlist.”
• The AAP also alleged that the BJP was hatching a conspiracy to arrest Kejriwal inside the CBI headquarters. “But no conspiracy, no strategy, no trap can suppress the voice of CM Arvind Kejriwal, his fight will continue no matter what happens to him. This fight will now spread to every nook and corner of this country.”

(With PTI inputs)

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