New Delhi: The BJP demanded Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s immediate resignation after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in an excise policy-linked money laundering case.
“Today every citizen of Delhi is satisfied that the chief minister, implicated in allegations of corruption, has finally been arrested,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva
told reporters.
“The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal is the defeat of corruption. Kejriwal should resign immediately,” he said.
Delhi BJP president Sachdeva said the liquor scam started in Delhi in 2021-22, and one revelations after another exposed how corruption took place and money was laundered. “While Kejriwal staged a drama against drugs in Punjab, he pushed the youth into the abyss of addiction by opening liquor shops and bar rooms in every street in Delhi,” he charged.
He said AAP leaders’ statements that Kejriwal will run the government from jail “is an insult to constitutional norms”.
“(Then Jharkhand Chief Minister) Hemant Soren also said the same thing, but upon being arrested (in a separate case), he had to resign, and the same will happen in Delhi as well,” Sachdeva said.
Earlier in the day, as an ED team reached the chief minister’s residence to carry out searches, the Delhi BJP
chief told reporters, “If Kejriwal has any morality left, he should step down and cooperate with the ED.”