Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi after noticing a link between an ED raid and a TMC MLA switching to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In a social media post on X platform, Kejriwal alleged that ministers are being forced to join the saffron party under threat of legal action.
Kejriwal hinted at a link between the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on then TMC MLA Tapas Roy and his joining the BJP weeks later.
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“How people are being inducted into the BJP by being harassed by ED. After the ED raid is done, the question is asked: where will you go – BJP or jail? Those who refuse to go to the BJP, send them to jail,” the Chief Minister of Delhi wrote on the X platform.
Yesterday, TMC MLA Tapas Roy joined the BJP. “I have joined the BJP today because I want to fight against the misrule and atrocities of the TMC,” he said.
Notably, ED had raided Roy's residence in January in connection with the alleged irregularities in civilian recruitment.
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The Aam Aadmi Party supremo added that joining the BJP appears to be a way to avoid legal consequences.
“If Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh join the BJP today, they will get bail tomorrow itself. It is not that these three committed any crime, they just refused to join the BJP,” Kejriwal wrote.
On the ED summons, he said it would be stopped if he joined the BJP. On Wednesday, the ED filed a fresh complaint in a Delhi court seeking prosecution of Kejriwal for skipping multiple summons issued to him in a money laundering case.
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The ED had earlier moved a local court to prosecute Kejriwal for failing to attend the first three summons issued to him in the money laundering case related to the now scrapped excise policy in Delhi.
Kejriwal, 55, has termed all ED summons “illegal”. He had informed the agency last time that he could be questioned through a video conference link after March 12.
“We have not done anything wrong and we are not trying to hide,” he had said during a press conference on March 4, the day he was asked to join the probe as per the ED's eighth summons.
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Published: Mar 7, 2024 08:37 IST