New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has shown the mirror to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and exposed their "lies" by rejecting his plea challenging his arrest in the "liquor scam", Delhi BJP said on Tuesday.
Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, who had raised the issue of alleged irregularities in the now scrapped excise policy (2021-22) of the Delhi government in the Assembly, said that Kejriwal should now give up his "insistence" on running the government from jail and immediately resign from the chief minister's post.
"If Kejriwal and his party still remain adamant, then the President will be left with no other option but to dismiss the government," he said in a statement.
In a massive setback to Kejriwal, the Delhi High Court dismissed his petition challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam, saying there was no contravention of legal provisions.
Besides his arrest, Kejriwal, currently in judicial custody in Tihar jail till April 15, had also challenged his subsequent remand in Enforcement Directorate's custody, which the court said was not illegal.