Excise Policy: ‘If I’m corrupt, no one in this world is honest’: Delhi CM Kejriwal after CBI Summon

NEW DELHI: In his first response after the CBI summon, CM Arvind Kejriwal at a press conference today said that courts are being lied to and there is not a shred of proof of any wrongdoing.

In a blistering attack on the PM, Kejriwal pressed that investigating agencies like CBI and ED were going to extraordinary lengths to target their fiercest political opponents. “If BJP has given orders to the CBI to arrest me, how can they not arrest me? AAP has given hope to the country, the PM wants to extinguish that hope, he said.”

Further, he announced that his party will file cases against CBI and ED officials for alleged 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,” said Kejriwal. Notably, the same statement was given by AAP leader Sanjay Singh after he was named in the chargesheet filed in the corruption case. 

Earlier on Friday, the Central Bureau of Investigation summoned Kejriwal in connection with the excise policy scam case on April 16. According to CBI, money raised from tweaking the policy in favour of certain liquor dealers and the South lobby was suspected to be pumped in for election purposes by the AAP, which is under the probe as part of the money trail. Hours after Kejriwal was summoned, AAP termed the probe by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the excise policy a “move by Modi government to obstruct good works of Delhi government in health and education sectors”.

AAP also alleged that the BJP is hatching a conspiracy to arrest Kejriwal inside CBI headquarters. “But no conspiracy, no tactic, no trap can muffle the voice of CM Arvind Kejriwal, his fight will go on regardless of what happens to him. This fight will spread to every nook and corner of this country now,” AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said.