Arvind Kejriwal asks ED for virtual hearing after March 12 "How people are included in BJP by getting harassed by ED. After getting the ED raid done, the question is asked - where will you go - BJP or jail? Those who refuse to go to BJP, they send them to jail," wrote the Delhi Chief Minister on the X platform. Yesterday, TMC MLA Tapas Roy joined the BJP.
"I have joined the BJP today, as I want to fight against the misrule and atrocities of the TMC," he said. Notably, ED had raided Roy's residence in January in connection with the alleged irregularities in civic body recruitments. All about Arvind Kejriwal's ₹1,000 monthly aid for women The Aam Aadmi Party supremo added that joining the BJP seems to be a way to evade legal consequences.
"If Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia, and Sanjay Singh join BJP today, they will get bail tomorrow itself. It is not that these three have committed any crime, they just refused to join BJP," Kejriwal wrote. On ED summons, he said it would be stopped if he joined the BJP.
On Wednesday, the ED filed a fresh complaint before a Delhi court seeking the prosecution of Kejriwal for skipping multiple summonses issued to him in a money laundering case. 22% rise in Delhi's per capita income, economy to grow at 9.17% in FY24: Atishi The ED had earlier moved a local court seeking Kejriwal's prosecution for not attending the first three summonses issued to him in the money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. Kejriwal, 55, has called all the ED summonses "illegal".
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