"Aadhe jail mein hain, aadhe bail par hain": JP Nadda attacks opposition parties

Puducherry [India], April 15 : Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda on Monday took a dig at the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party over allegations of corruption against the opposition leaders, saying that "half of their leaders are in jail, while the other half are out on bail."
During a road show in Puducherry, the BJP national president said that PM Modi changed the culture and now it is the culture of the politics of development.
"I ask you: Isn't Rahul Gandhi out on bail? Isn't Sonia Gandhi out on bail? Isn't Chidambaram out on bail? Isn't Karti Chidambaram out on bail? Isn't Sanjay Singh out on bail? Isn't Kejriwal in jail? Isn't Manish Sisodia in jail? Isn't Satyendar Jain in jail? 'Aadhe jail mein hain, aadhe bail par hain' (half are in jail and half are on bail)," Nadda said.
He further said that in the past ten years, the people have been able to see that the villages have been strengthened.
"PM Modi changed the culture and now it is the culture of the politics of development. Politics of accountability, politics of performance, politics of reforms and politics of transformation. In the past ten years, you have been able to see that the villages have been strengthened," he added.
Nadda said that the culture of Indian politics has changed in the last 10 years.
"In the last ten years PM Modi has been able to change the culture of Indian politics. He has been able to change the political style of functioning which was prevalent for 60-70 years ago. Which was a politics of appeasement, a politics of division, a politics of making one caste fight against another...That was the Congress culture at that time," he said.
Delhi Court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till April 23 in the money laundering case connected to the now-scrapped liquor policy.
Earlier, AAP leader Kejriwal approached the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi High Court judgement that dismissed his plea against arrest by the ED and his subsequent remand in the excise policy case.
On April 9, the High Court dismissed his plea for release from jail and rejected his argument of political vendetta amid the looming Lok Sabha elections.
The High Court had said that Kejriwal's absence from nine ED summons over six months undermined any claims of special privilege as Chief Minister, suggesting his arrest was an inevitable consequence of his non-cooperation.
Filing the appeal against the High Court judgement, Kejriwal said that there is no material in the possession of the Enforcement Directorate on the basis of which an inference of guilt can be made under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The arrest was made solely based on the subsequent, contradictory, and highly belated statements of co-accused who have now turned approvers, the appeal stated.
Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 in connection with a money laundering probe relating to alleged irregularities in the now-cancelled Delhi excise policy 2021-22.
Sanjay Singh, who was in jail in connection with the Delhi excise policy case since October last year, got out on bail earlier this month.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress, which will fight in alliance, are the two other key political parties in Delhi in the fray.
Voting for all 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the only constituency in Puducherry will be held in the first phase on April 19.
The polling will be conducted in seven phases across the country from April 19 to June 1. The counting of votes will be on June 4.