Rahul Gandhi will try to meet Kejriwal or his family tomorrow to offer further legal assistance, the source added.
A team from the Enforcement Directorate arrived at Kejriwal’s residence on Thursday to question him about the liquor policy case. During a search operation conducted at his residence, Kejriwal was arrested amid dramatic circumstances, as the AAP convener failed to get interim protection from arrest in the liquor policy case from the Delhi High Court. The Enforcement Directorate took him to the agency’s headquarters later. A medical team also arrived at the ED office.
AAP workers and leaders rallied behind Kejriwal following his arrest while INDIA bloc leaders also extended their support for the AAP leader. BJP leaders extended their support to the ED’s actions against the Delhi Chief Minister, stressing that “truth must prevail”.
Pointing to the arrests of two opposition chief ministers and the freezing of a Congress party bank account, Delhi Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi on Thursday asked the BJP to stop doing backroom politics. of the Enforcement Directorate.
He accused the BJP of trying to win elections through undemocratic means and urged them to engage in fair political competition instead of using ED as a tool or weapon for their political agenda.” Today, BJP is killing democracy .They arrested two opposition chief ministers (One chief minister Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was put in jail and now another Kejriwal) and froze a party’s bank account.Is this how BJP wants to win elections ?I want to tell the BJP that if you want to fight, then come forward and fight in the political arena, in the electoral arena. Stop doing politics hiding behind ED, stop using ED as your weapon,” he said. . Earlier, AAP leader and Delhi Minister Atishi said they have moved the Supreme Court to quash Kejriwal’s arrest and sought an immediate hearing.
“We have moved the Supreme Court to revoke the arrest of Delhi CM @ArvindKejriwal by ED. We have sought an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court tonight itself,” Atishi said in a post on X.