Hours after Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita read out a message on behalf of the CM, AAP leaders on March 23 claimed that their party office in Delhi has been sealed from all sides.
Delhi Minister Atishi in a post on social media platform ‘X’ said that the party office in Delhi’s ITO “has been sealed off from all sides”. “How can access to a national party office be stopped during the Lok Sabha election? This against the ‘level playing field’ promised in the Indian Constitution,” Ms. Atishi said.
She added that AAP will seek time with the Election Commission of India to file a complaint against this.
AAP’s national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “We will approach EC, the Central Govt has closed all access to AAP Head office at ITO, that too in Model Code of Conduct.”
Kejriwal’s wife reads his message
In a video posted on Arvind Kejriwal’s X handle, his wife Sunita read out a message which she said was written by the Delhi Chief Minister from jail.
“Whether I am inside jail or outside I will work to serve the country. I have launched many struggles and will continue to launch movements and therefore this arrest does not amaze me. We need to work together to make India the number one country in the word.”
“In India, there are many internal and external forces that are trying to weaken India. We have to identify and defeat these forces,” he said.
Kejriwal sent to ED custody
A court on Friday remanded Mr. Kejriwal in ED’s custody till March 28 “for his detailed and sustained interrogation” regarding his role in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
The court observed that custodial interrogation was required to “unearth the remaining proceeds of crime” and to “confront him with data retrieved from digital devices and material seized during the investigation”.
The Delhi court remanded Mr. Kejriwal in ED custody for six days after the agency pressed for his custodial interrogation for 10 days while accusing the AAP leader of being “involved in the entire conspiracy of the Delhi liquor scam, in drafting and implementation of the policy, for favouring and benefiting the quid pro receiving kickbacks and eventually using part of the proceeds of crime generated out of the scheduled offence in the election campaign for Goa Assembly election”.
