Open rallies around as CBI set to quiz Kejriwal today
If I'm Corrupt, No One Is Honest in World: Kejriwal
- New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said he will appear before the CBI in the excise policy case and asserted that if he was "corrupt" then no one in the world was "honest".
- Addressing a press conference here over the CBI sum mons to him in the excise policy case, he claimed that BJP leaders were demanding his arrest and that if the saffron party had "ordered" the probe agency to arrest him, it can- not refuse doing so.
- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned the AAP leader in connection with the case on Sunday. He has been asked to be present at the agency headquarters at 11 am to answer queries of the investigating team, officials said. The central probe agency has already arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the case.
- It is alleged that the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licensees to liquor traders favored certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The policy was later scrapped.
- Kejriwal also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, levelling allegations of corruption against him.
- "How can corruption be an issue for such a person who is submerged in corruption from head to toe," he said and cited the charges levelled against Modi by former Jam- mu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik. "I want to say to Modiji, if Kejriwal is a thief or corrupt, then there isn't a single honest man in this world," he asserted. Kejriwal said no party in the 75-year history of independent India had been targeted like the AAP because it has given hope to people which no other party has been able to do so far. "The AAP has given hope to people that it can eradicate poverty, provide education. and employment to their children. The prime minister wants to crush this hope," he said.