After Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain quit the cabinet, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre of hatching a conspiracy to put two ministers of Delhi government in jail.
In a major move to improve road safety in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will now personally oversee the government's road-safety initiatives, said a press release on Tuesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Gautam Gambhir on Tuesday described the Delhi excise policy scam as an "open-and-shut case" and alleged that the policy was made to exploit money to "fight elections with Khalistani's help".
Hitting out at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday demanded that the ambit of the ongoing CBI probe into the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam be extended to neighbouring Punjab, saying that the former was also the "
Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut on Monday targeted the central government over the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, asking if the BJP only had 'seers' and 'mahatmas'.
"There will soon be an end to PM Modi's dictatorship. He arrested the most popular Education minister (Manish Sisodia) of the country. He is trying to defame Arvind Kejriwal but such acts won't affect his image. It was a cowardly act by the Centre to have Sisodia arrested by the agencies,
"I am told that most CBI officers were against Manish's arrest. All of them have huge respect for him and there is no evidence against him. But the political pressure to arrest him was so high that they had to obey their political masters," Kejriwal tweeted.
The Delhi Police on Monday said that Effective and robust police arrangements are in place to maintain any law and order situation ahead of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) protest outside Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Headquarters today.
After arresting Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor excise policy case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday said that the former was giving evasive replies and not cooperating the investigation.