"To defame Delhi govt and AAP...": JDU leader KC Tyagi on Sanjay Singh's arrest
Oct 04, 2023
New Delhi [India], October 5 : Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi on Wednesday said that the BJP wants to defame the Aam Admi Party and the Delhi government and that is why AAP MP Sanjay Singh was arrested.
Speaking to ANI, KC Tyagi said, "Investigation agencies are being misused on the instructions of the government. I condemn the arrest of Sanjay Singh. To defame the Delhi government and AAP this action has been taken. Our stand is clear that we are not against agencies but against the misuse of agencies."
Meanwhile, the BJP justified the ED action and said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the kingpin of the whole liquor scam.
"Today Sanjay Singh has been arrested (in connection with Delhi liquor policy case). The flame will not remain only on Sanjay Singh or Manish Sisodia or Satyendar Jain, I believe it will soon reach Arvind Kejriwal," BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said in a press conference.
In this regard, BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh said, "Today I feel that the people of Delhi have started getting justice. Arvind Kejriwal is the kingpin of this liquor scam."
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested Singh in connection with a money laundering case linked to the now-withdrawn new excise policy of Delhi.
Sanjay Singh's party colleague and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was also arrested in the liquor policy scam case and is in jail.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 for his alleged role in the scam.
The central probe agency on Wednesday morning raided the residence of Sanjay Singh in connection with the now-canceled liquor excise policy in Delhi. The development followed ED's raid on the premises of Sanjay Singh's close aides.
The Delhi excise policy case pertains to allegations that the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 allowed cartelization and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge that has been strongly refuted by the AAP.
ED has so far filed five chargesheets in the case, including against Sisodia.
