Ahead of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s appearance before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the excise policy case, Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha took a swipe at the Centre saying that the “BJP government has made a plan to put all Opposition chief ministers in jail to get a freeway in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, Chadha said that the central agencies will first arrest Kejriwal and then will go after other chief ministers including Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin.
He said that 95 per cent of all the cases registered by the central agencies were against the political opponents of the BJP.
“They have registered cases against all big leaders including Manish Sisodia, Rahul Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah,” he said.
Lashing out at the Centre, the AAP leader said, “Delhi has seven Lok Sabha seats and we all know that if the INDIA bloc contests the Lok Sabha elections, BJP is going to lose all seven seats of Delhi. This has made the BJP so fearful that it is now planning to arrest Opposition leaders and first on the list is Kejriwal.”
Taking a jibe at the BJP, he said, “The BJP’s plan is ‘Arvind Kejriwal ko jail me daalo, 7 seat Delhi ki apni jeb me daalo’.”