New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chaddha on Saturday called Arvind Kejriwal a modern-day Mahatma Gandhi and said that if he is corrupt then no one can be honest. Addressing a press conference, Chaddha said, "Today AAP’s fear on BJP is such that one by one AAP leaders are being put in jail. AAP people are not made of that soil that they will sit in fear of jails, searches and agencies. AAP will fight till death to save the existence of our nation and make it number one country in the world.”
“Arvind Kejriwal is modern-day Mahatma Gandhi with unimpeachable integrity. And if he is corrupt, then no one in this world is honest,” he said, a day after CBI summoned him for questioning in connection with the excise policy case. "Tomorrow, they (CBI) have called me and I will definitely go. If Arvind Kejriwal is corrupt then there is no one in this world who is honest... If BJP has ordered CBI to arrest me, then CBI will obviously follow their instructions," he said.
Later, taking to Twitter, Kejriwal said appropriate cases will be filed against Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate officials for "perjury and producing false evidence in courts. "We will file appropriate cases against CBI and ED officials for perjury and producing false evidence in courts," he tweeted.
"I have received a summons from CBI. I will certainly honour it. My press conference is on the same, " the Aam Aadmi Party supremo added. Earlier in the press conference, Kejriwal also claimed that he knew he would be next in line to be summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) since the day he spoke against corruption in the Delhi assembly.
While talking to media persons, he said, "Central agencies are lying to courts against us in the liquor policy probe. Arrested people are being tortured, pressure is being created on them to nail us." He added, "The CBI has falsely accused Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case. People were beaten to obtain false statements. The agencies are torturing people for evidence. This was a great policy to eradicate corruption."
The CBI has summoned Kejriwal to appear before the agency on April 16. AAP leaders said that Kejriwal will appear before the CBI for questioning. Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, a key aide of Kejriwal, is already in jail over alleged irregularities in the excise policy case.
Sisodia was arrested by ED and CBI in the ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy in Delhi. The CBI arrested Sisodia on February 26. Later on March 9, the ED arrested him, after hours of questioning at Tihar Jail.
The ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy, undue favours were extended to licence holders, the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L-1 licence was extended without the competent authority's approval. The beneficiaries diverted "illegal" gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their account books to evade detection, the probe agencies said. (ANI)
