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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's exclusive interview with The Indian Express.
Table of Contents
- You are the first serving Chief Minister to have been sent to jail. Now that you are out on interim bail, how do you reflect on your time there?
- Your party claims there is no liquor scam but the courts (hearing bail pleas) haven’t been convinced of this claim.
- What makes you say the BJP is targeting AAP and, specifically, you?
- And Arvind Kejriwal, the individual?
- After your release on interim bail, yoArvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician serving as the Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. He is also the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). These days, Arvind Kejriwal is focused on various initiatives related to governance, public welfare, and political activities in Delhi.u said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retire at 75 and Home Minister Amit Shah will step into his shoes. Why? This was countered by Shah…
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You are the first serving Chief Minister to have been sent to jail. Now that you are out on interim bail, how do you reflect on your time there?
The country is going through a very difficult time. Slowly, and now very quickly, the country is moving towards dictatorship. They (the BJP government at the Centre) first arrested (ex-Jharkhand CM) Hemant Soren, and then me. By arresting me, they are giving a message to people of the country that if they can arrest Kejriwal in a false case, they can arrest anyone. So they should be feared, and people should do as they say. These are signs of a dictatorship. In a democracy, they should listen to people, but they are asking people to listen to them. We have to save the country from this. In a way, this is like the freedom struggle. Many people who inspire me today went to jail for long periods at the time. My going to jail is to save the country, it is not because I am corrupt. It is not because Manish Sisodia has done something wrong. Just like people went to jail for long periods for this country’s freedom, we are going to jail to save democracy and the Constitution. I have always said that I can sacrifice my life for the country. This is a part of that struggle.
Your party claims there is no liquor scam but the courts (hearing bail pleas) haven’t been convinced of this claim.
The PMLA Act has turned the entire criminal jurisprudence on its head. Till now, in the criminal system, an FIR would be filed, investigation would be carried out, there would be a case and the court would decide whether a person is guilty or innocent. Only then would a guilty person be punished. Now it’s the other way round. An FIR is filed and whoever they doubt is arrested on the first day. And then the investigation continues and he remains in jail. Only when a person is declared innocent in court that a person is released from jail. This is what PMLA says. So no one is getting bail. And the conviction rate is nothing, all the cases are fake. This law was brought in to completely demolish the opposition – that either people join the BJP or go to jail. tjos is ,y ifea;lg dvmgj av fv dskgmjg bj dsvsf mdfwksbmfv rsnhntdbjksbndjfksdnmFG AJBKSDNFGGSIKJDSNGB IJB NSDBJ BSNADJV BDFJSVN JFDKVNSB JDGKFNMGDV KJDFSFDVJKFDARG BKNGBKJ
What makes you say the BJP is targeting AAP and, specifically, you?
The phenomenal rise of the Aam Aadmi Party. Many people who meet the PM, some of them are our friends too, they tell us that the PM discusses AAP frequently. And he says that in the future, AAP will challenge them nationally and in many states. They want to nip it in the bud, crush AAP before it grows. They are running ‘operation jhaadu’ these days as part of which they are arresting AAP leaders… Mr Raju (Additional Solicitor General S V Raju) has given a statement that they will seize our accounts after the elections. Proceedings to vacate our office are underway. But they don’t understand that AAP is no longer a party of four people. It is now a thought that is spreading across the country. The kind of work we have done in the fields of education and health, no one has seen before. Why did we win in Punjab? Because our work in Delhi resonated there. Why did people in Gujarat vote for us? Because our work in Punjab and Delhi.
And Arvind Kejriwal, the individual?
Because I am the main leader of the AAP, they believe that if they crush me, target me, AAP will finish. When they arrested me, they had hoped they could paint me as corrupt, and that all our leaders will break away, AAP will disintegrate, they will break our MLAs, topple our government and there will be no one left to campaign. The opposite happened. After my arrest, the message that went out to the people was that an honest, simple man has been arrested. None of our leaders broke away, the party became more close-knit and volunteers worked with double the energy.
After your release on interim bail, yoArvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician serving as the Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. He is also the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). These days, Arvind Kejriwal is focused on various initiatives related to governance, public welfare, and political activities in Delhi.u said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retire at 75 and Home Minister Amit Shah will step into his shoes. Why? This was countered by Shah…
Amit Shah ji and many others said it that day, but it was their appeal to the PM not to retire. Modi ji has not confirmed this. If he doesn’t follow the rule that he made, people will say that he made the rule only to finish Advani ji. If Modi ji says I will not retire, that this rule does not apply to me, I will believe it. Other leaders will, of course, say it. That he hasn’t said it means he will retire next year. A very ugly succession battle is going on within the BJP. Modi ji wants Shah ji to become PM, and this is not acceptable to the rest of the BJP.
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