New Delhi: Delhi chief minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal has called the Enforcement Directorate’s summons against him over the Delhi liquor policy case, “illegal and invalid”. He said the ED notices are part of the BJP’s vendetta politics and the party wants to arrest him to prevent him from campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections. Reacting to the remarks, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the AAP chief has “anarchy in his DNA”.
This is the fourth time Arvind Kejriwal skipped the Enforcement Directorate’s summons over the past two months. “ED sent me the fourth notice today and asked me to appear before them on either 18th or 19th January. These four notices are illegal and invalid. Whenever such notices are sent by ED, they are quashed by the court. These notices are nothing but just political vendetta. An investigation was being done in this case for 2 years but they did not recover anything,” Kejriwal said.
Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the central agency is being run by the ruling BJP. “Why have I been called 2 months before the Lok Sabha elections? ED is being run by BJP…Their only intention is to arrest me so that I cannot campaign for the elections,” he claimed. “These notices are being sent under a political conspiracy,” he added. The BJP has slammed Kejriwal for questioning the ED.
