‘You Have Shamed Anna Hazare’: BJP Hits Out At AAP, Says Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain Ought to Have Stop Earlier | Information

New Delhi: The BJP has launched a stinging assault on Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Occasion and mentioned that former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who has been arrested by the CBI in reference to the liquor rip-off case, ought to have give up earlier. Whereas addressing a press convention within the nationwide capital, BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned that “AAP leaders have defamed the anti-corruption agitation led by social activist and Kejriwal’s mentor Anna Hazare.”

“The 2 AAP leaders – Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain – ought to have resigned earlier. Jain has resigned a number of months after his arrest and Sisodia ought to have resigned on the time when the allegations in opposition to them got here out,” the previous regulation minister mentioned. Describing the liquor rip-off case in Delhi as a “fastened textbook case of corruption”, Prasad mentioned the BJP will increase the difficulty in each nook of the nation.

Prasad added that the Supreme courtroom on Tuesday refused to “grant any indulgence to one of many “most outstanding faces of the anti-corruption motion led by Anna Hazare”. “This clearly signifies the advantage of Sisodia’s plea that the apex courtroom refused to grant any reduction,” Prasad mentioned. Whereas describing AAP as a celebration of “minimize, fee and corruption,” Prasad mentioned that Sisodia and Jain ought to have been sacked when the graft allegations in opposition to them had first come to mild.

Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on Sunday night in reference to alleged corruption within the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi liquor coverage for 2021-22, whereas Jain is lodged in Tihar Jail in a cash laundering case since Could final yr.

Hitting out on the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) and its nationwide convener Kejriwal, senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned individuals who claimed to be the “flag bearers of the battle in opposition to corruption” have ensured governance that “will increase the variety of alcohol customers in Delhi”.

With out naming AAP instantly, Prasad mentioned he thought that minimize and fee was the legacy of just one political occasion. “However immediately, I need to say that 3C-cut, fee and corruption additionally applies for Kejriwal’s occasion,” Prasad mentioned and added that AAP leaders have defamed the anti-corruption agitation led by Anna Hazare.

The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday refused to entertain the bail plea of Sisodia, who’s in CBI custody in reference to the excise coverage case. Sisodia is maybe the one schooling minister within the nation who can be a “liquor minister”, the BJP chief mentioned.

Referring to Kejriwal, Prasad mentioned that throughout the Gujarat elections, he claimed that the Intelligence Bureau was reporting a giant win for the AAP, and on Monday, he claimed that the CBI was not in favour of Sisodia’s arrest. “I’m amazed on the variety of lies spewed by Kejriwal for the fee from liquor,” he mentioned.

In a dramatic flip of occasions, arrested Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led cupboard amidst BJP’s persistent onslaught in opposition to the AAP over the corruption prices in opposition to its leaders. The resignations got here minutes after the Supreme Courtroom refused to entertain the bail plea of Sisodia, who’s in CBI custody within the now-scrapped excise coverage case, saying it might set a “improper precedent” and efficacious different treatments have been obtainable to him.

Sisodia’s portfolios have been given to Kailash Gahlot and Raaj Kumar Anand until the appointment of latest ministers. Anand, who has been given the cost of schooling, land and constructing, vigilance, companies, tourism, artwork tradition and language, labour, employment, well being and industries along with his present portfolios, has mentioned that the target of his occasion to supply good schooling and well being amenities to folks of town will stay unchanged.