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This is an archive article published on September 2, 2024

‘Revolutionaries will not bow down to the dictator’s tyranny’: AAP slams BJP after Delhi MLA Amanatullah Khan’s arrest

AAP alleged that the motive behind Khan’s arrest was to stop him from campaigning in his constituency for the Delhi Assembly polls next year.

AAP leader Amanatullah Khan arrestedOkhla MLA Amanatullah Khan. (Express photo)

Hours after Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case Monday, the Aam Aam Party (AAP) hit out at the BJP-led Centre and said “revolutionaries will not bow down to the dictator’s tyranny”.

It alleged that the motive behind Khan’s arrest was to stop him from campaigning in his constituency for the Delhi Assembly polls next year. “… The more the BJP and its agencies try to suppress us, the more vocal our voices will be,” it added.

Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in a post on X said, “This is the only job left for ED. Suppress every voice raised against the BJP. Break it. Arrest and put in jail those who do not break or get suppressed.”

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AAP Rajya Sabha MP and senior leader Sanjay Singh accused the Centre of “goondagardi” (rowdyism) and said, “Khan’s arrest will prove costly for the BJP. It will lose badly in Delhi… the ED arrested him without any evidence…”

Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said: “The central government’s investigating agency has been after Khan for the last eight years. When they found nothing, they filed a case against him under the PMLA as it would take months for him to get bail… This arrest is nothing but a conspiracy hatched by the BJP to arrest AAP leaders before polls.”

Hitting back at the AAP, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said: “If the investigative agency is doing its job, why are AAP leaders so anxious? If you are right, the truth will come out. The AAP has a long list of criminals and corrupt individuals, and whenever action is taken against them, they start making noise. Today, once again, that drama has unfolded before everyone.”

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