NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia lashed out at the BJP-led central government on Wednesday, alleging that it had conspired to fabricate false cases against Arvind Kejriwal and “treated him like a terrorist” as the party was scared of his popularity as a chief minister.
After a Delhi court discharged Kejriwal, Sisodia and nine other AAP legislators in a case of alleged assault on former Delhi chief secretary Anshu Prakash in 2018, Sisodia said this decision had also increased the confidence of people in the judiciary and expressed his gratitude. The allegations were so baseless that the court refused to even frame charges, he said.
“Today is the day of victory of justice and truth in Delhi,” said Sisodia. “Considering the truth is in front of everyone, Modi-ji’s central government and BJP should apologise to CM Kejriwal and the people of Delhi who chose him.”
Sisodia alleged that the case was “hatched” as part of a conspiracy to topple a state government, fearing the increasing popularity of an elected CM. “Officers have been forcibly stopped from working for public good for six months. Today, the Centre has become so busy in all this that the country’s system is failing,” Sisodia said. “This failure can also be seen in the mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis.”
“BJP is scared of Arvind Kejriwal’s popularity, so a fake FIR was made against him using Delhi Police, and his house and office were raided. He was treated like a terrorist,” he said. “This is the first incident after Independence when such a raid was conducted in the house and office of a sitting CM. Police kept interrogating him for six hours continuously.”
False and fabricated conspiracies are being hatched from day one to obstruct the government elected by the people of Delhi, Sisodia alleged.
