New Delhi: Alleging the Tihar Jail administration cancelled Delhi Minister Atishi's meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the last moment, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday said "even the British rule did not see this kind of behaviour".
There was no immediate reaction from the Tihar Jail administration. Addressing a press conference, Singh said that Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and City Education Minister Atishi were supposed to meet the chief minister in Tihar.
"But Atishi's meeting was not confirmed yesterday. Delhi Education Minister Atishi applied for the meeting and at the last moment her meeting was cancelled," Singh said.
"After her meeting was cancelled, party national general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak was supposed to accompany Bharadwaj, but he was informed around 9.30 am today that even his meeting was cancelled," he added.
Singh questioned the reasons behind the move and feared that Kejriwal might not even be allowed to meet his wife in future. "You are cancelling a MP's meeting, a minister's meeting with Kejriwal. You had cancelled my meeting with him earlier. Tomorrow you might cancel the meeting with his wife. Even the British rule did not see this kind of behaviour," he said.
Singh said that he would be writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena regarding the same. "He is being meted out worse treatment than the one meted out to terrorists or hardcore criminals. They are allowed to meet in person their lawyers and their families but you are stopping his meetings," he said.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said that "no reason was given" for cancellation of the meeting. Earlier in the day, Bharadwaj had a 30-minute-long meeting with Kejriwal.
"I had a half-an-hour meeting in the 'mulakat jangla'. He said that people should not worry about him. He said he is strong and he will continue his fight with the blessings of the people of Delhi," he told reporters after the meeting.
The 'mulakat jangla' is an iron mesh which separates the inmate from the visitor in a room inside the jail. A visitor and an inmate can talk to each other by sitting on different sides of the mesh.
Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case on March 21. The chief minister has not stepped down post his arrest with the AAP asserting that he would continue to run the government from jail.
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