Liquor scam case: Protesting outside AAP office, BJP leaders ask Kejriwal to quit like former Delhi CM Khurana

Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said, “Development has come to a standstill and corruption is rampant everywhere.” (Photo: BJP)

The BJP opposition’s demand found an unlikely ally in the Congress as well, with the party’s senior leader and former Union Minister Ajay Maken saying that Kejriwal had been “clearly indicted” by the ED.

Led by Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, several party leaders were part of the protest. Twenty individuals who were part of the protest were detained after they attempted to breach barricades set up by police near the perimeter of the AAP headquarters. They were taken into custody at the IP Estate police station and released later.

“We have been saying since the beginning that he is involved and now Kejriwal’s name has appeared in the ED chargesheet which vindicates our point,” Sachdeva said.
“Those who have been caught so far in the case have admitted that meetings regarding the scam used to take place at Kejriwal’s residence and that the protagonist in it was Manish Sisodia,” he alleged.

Sachdeva demanded that Kejriwal, in the interest of morality, step down from his post like former BJP chief minister Madan Lal Khurana did after his name emerged in relation to an alleged hawala scam in 1995. Khurana had stepped down from the post in 1996 but was exonerated later.

Bidhuri likened Kejriwal to “an invader” who was plundering the city. “Delhi was first looted by invaders like Mohammed Ghori, Mahmood Ghazni, Taimur, the British and thereafter by Congress governments. Today, Arvind Kejriwal is looting Delhi,” he alleged.

Maken said the ED chargesheet and reports which had surfaced publicly “clearly indict Kejriwal in the liquor scam”.

“A PMLA court took cognizance of the chargesheet on Thursday and has allowed charges to be framed against all the accused. The Indian National Congress demands the immediate resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with the indicted Ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain,” Maken said.