Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal has started campaigning for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates in Gujarat ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking before an election campaign on Thursday, Sunita wondered, “If the investigation lasts for 10 years, will they keep him (Arvind Kejriwal) in jail for 10 years?”
Addressing a rally in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, Sunita Kejriwal said her husband, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has been in jail “forcibly” for the past 40 days.
“It is clearly a dictatorship. He is a well-read, patriotic and truthful person. For the sake of social services, he left his job and went to the slums to work for them. When we got married, he asked me just one question: I want to do social services, don't you have any problem with that?…” said Sunita Kejriwal.
AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21 in a money laundering case related to the now scrapped excise policy in Delhi. Kejriwal is currently under judicial custody in Tihar Jail in the national capital.
Sunita Kejriwal arrived at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday before heading for election rallies for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates in Bharuch and Bhavnagar Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat.
“They (BJP) forcibly put Arvind Kejriwal behind bars during the elections so that his voice does not reach the people. But people are very smart and will respond with their voices,” she told media at the airport.
Sunita Kejriwal has taken charge of AAP's Lok Sabha campaign in the absence of her husband, who was in Tihar jail in connection with a money laundering case.
Recently, she held roadshows in the East Delhi and West Delhi Lok Sabha seats, where AAP has fielded its candidates.
The party also said it will campaign for AAP in Punjab and Haryana.
(With input from the agency)
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Published: May 2, 2024 3:57 PM IST