Manish Sisodia raided: Kejriwal said the people of Gujarat are sad and are bearing the brunt of the arrogance of the BJP regime of last 27 years in the state.
Delhi Liquor Policy scam: The CBI named Manish Sisodia, an IAS officer among 15 others in its FIR on Friday. Union Minister Anurag Thakur described Kejriwal as the "kingpin" of the "liquor scam" in the capital.
The direction has come after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided at 22 locations in the national capital, including the house of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia in connection with irregularities in new Excise policy case.
Delhi Liquor Policy scam: According to reports, the physical search is over at Manish Sisodia's residence. Emails are being dumped and seizure memos of seized papers and electronic evidence are being filled. After completing the dump and seizure memo, the CBI search will be completed.
Delhi liquor policy: The CBI on Friday carried out searches at the residences of Manish Sisodia and IAS officer Arava Gopi Krishna, and 19 other locations, after registering an FIR for irregularities in the formulation and execution of the Delhi Excise Policy brought out in November last year.
Delhi Excise Duty scam: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also claimed that Prime Minister Modi is "rattled" by the "growing popularity" of Delhi chief minister Kejriwal and his model of governance.
Manish Sisodia CBI raid: Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena had recommended a CBI probe into the Kejriwal government's Excise Policy, 2021-22, over alleged violations of rules and procedural lapses.
Gujarat election 2022: The AAP convener also promised to improve the infrastructure of the existing government schools and open new ones in large numbers across the state if his party comes to power in the state currently ruled by the BJP.
Kejriwal attacked the BJP-led Central government and said that an atmosphere is being created against free government welfare services by terming them freebies, rather than planning to strengthen them in the 75th year of independence.
The PESA Act was enacted by Parliament in 1996 to ensure self- governance for people living in Scheduled Areas.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra shared the content of a letter from the Delhi government which shows complaints from Delhi government schools.
Last month, High Commissioner of Singapore, Simon Wong, had invited Kejriwal for the World Cities Summit.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister, who also holds excise department portfolio, had said the BJP was rattled because Rs 3,500 crore earned by its leaders through illegal liquor trade had stopped after the implementation of the new excise policy.
Earlier, Kejriwal did not attend scheduled weekly meeting with Saxena on Friday, in the backdrop of a CBI probe recommended by the LG in alleged lapses and irregularities in implementation of Excise policy of Delhi government.
BJP leaders alleged that all this happened at the instance of CM Kejriwal, who made arbitrary changes in the excise policy, took hasty decisions, and this could not have happened without quid pro quo with the vendors.
The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena on Friday recommended a CBI probe into Kejriwal government's Excise Policy, 2021-22, over alleged violations of rules and procedural lapses. Watch this episode of Aaj Ki Baat.
The BJP and Congress had vociferously opposed the policy and lodged complaint with the LG as well as central agencies for a probe into it.
Kejriwal noted there could be political differences between him and the prime minister, but said they will have to set aside their differences and present the nation's interests to the world.
Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said a two-day session was not adequate and accused the Kejriwal government of running away from answering questions on public issues.
Earlier, in a letter to Saxena, Sisodia had asked under whose "pressure" the L-G had approved investigation by the ACB in an old complaint that was rejected by his predecessor Anil Baijal as "frivolous and baseless".
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