Arvind Kejriwal alleged that a political conspiracy was hatched to arrest him as the BJP knows that it will not be able to defeat the AAP in Delhi, where his party won back to back assembly elections with a landslide majority
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A day after getting bail in the Delhi excise policy case, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched scathing attacks on the BJP-led central government, saying it wants to crush his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by arresting its top leaders.
Addressing his supporters at the AAP headquarters in the national capital, Kejriwal claimed that all opposition leaders would be sent to jail if the BJP returned to power. However, he claimed that the BJP is getting around 220 seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.
‘IF YOU IMPRISON DEMOCRACY IN JAIL…’
The Delhi CM revealed why he did not resign from his post while being lodged in jail and said, “If you imprison democracy in jail, democracy will run from jail. Even Hemant Soren should not have resigned. By not resigning, I am battling against Tanashahi.”
“When I was in jail, some people raised this issue that why doesn’t Arvind Kejriwal resign from the post of Delhi CM? I have not come to become CM or PM…In the last 75 years, elections have been held in so many states, AAP government was formed in Delhi with the most historic majority, no other political party could win in any state with such a huge margin. They knew could never defeat AAP, so a conspiracy was hatched to send Kejriwal to jail and the government would fall but we did not fall into their trap,” he said.
‘NO OTHER PARTY HARASSED TO THIS EXTENT IN 75 YEARS…’
“…No other party has been harassed to this extent in 75 years. The Prime Minister is saying that he is fighting corruption but all the thieves are in his party. By arresting Kejriwal, they have given the message that if Kejriwal is arrested then they will arrest anyone…” he added.
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‘THEY WILL SEND ALL OPPOSITION LEADERS TO JAIL…’
The AAP national convenor also said that if the BJP returns to power in the Centre, they will send “all opposition leaders to jail”.
“They will send opposition leaders to jail and will finish (Nipta denge) the politics of BJP leaders…Our ministers, Hemant Soren, ministers of Mamata Banerjee’s party are in jail…If they win again, then Mamata Banerjee, MK Stalin, Tejashwi Yadav, Pinarayi Vijayan, Uddhav Thackeray and other opposition leaders will all be in jail…Politics of LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Vasundhara Raje, ML Khattar, Raman Singh have been finished. The next is Yogi Adityanath. If they win this election, they will change the CM of Uttar Pradesh within 2 months,” he said.
‘A DICTATOR WANTS TO END DEMOCRACY…’
Without taking any names, Kejriwal alleged that a “dictator wants to end democracy” and urged for support of people in “saving the country”.
“…Whenever a dictator tried to take over, the people of the country uprooted him. Today again a dictator wants to end democracy…I am fighting against that dictator but I cannot do anything alone. I have come to beg from 140 crore people to support me in saving the country from this dictator…The Supreme Court has given me 21 days, I will travel across the country. Every drop of my blood is for the country…” he said.
“I am coming straight from jail to you. It feels great to be with you after 50 days. I just went to Hanuman temple with my wife and CM Bhagwant Mann. Bajrang Bali’s blessings are on our party and us. It is by his grace that I am among you today…” the Delhi CM said.
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal walked out of Tihar Jail on Friday, after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1 in the liquor policy case.
‘ARVIND KEJRIWAL IS NOT A PERSON, ARVIND KEJRIWAL IS A THOUGHT’
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who was also present during the press conference, said, “Whether I went to Assam, Gujarat or Punjab, I just said that Arvind Kejriwal is not a person, Arvind Kejriwal is a thought, you will arrest the person, how to arrest the thought?…In the first 3 rounds (of LS polls), PM Modi got to know that this time it is not going to be ‘400 paar’…There is a slogan coming from the women wing- ’25 May, BJP gayi’…”
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal visited the Hanuman Temple at Connaught Place on Saturday accompanied by his wife Sunita and Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann and thanked Lord Hanuman for his interim bail after 40 days in judicial custody.
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Opposition leaders also welcomed Kejriwal’s interim bail, saying the “fight to save democracy” will now be with more intensity.
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