The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday challenged the Centre to make public the evidence it claims to have gathered against Sanjay Singh on the Delhi Excise policy case. This comes as the party workers and supporters gathered in front of the BJP headquarters in New Delhi to protest against Singh's arrest.
Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, was arrested on Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with its money laundering probe linked to the 2021-22 Delhi Excise policy case.
The protesters were detained by the Police.
Delhi minister and AAP senior leader Atishi, while addressing a press conference, alleged that the ED has not found a single piece of evidence against Singh. "Over 500 officers of the ED and CBI conducted raids at various places linked to the AAP leaders in the last 15 months, but haven't found a single evidence against them. They raided Manish Sisodia's residence, offices and several other places but they couldn't find evidence of corruption of even a single penny. And now, Sanjay Singh has been targeted," she said.
She alleged that Singh was targeted because he constantly raised issues of the Centre's corruption. "I want to challenge the BJP that if they found any evidence against Sanjay Singh, they should make it public or they should quit politics. They can send their officers anywhere where Sanjay Singh visited and I can vouch that they will not find anything against him," she claimed.
Atishi said the Centre was trying to silence Sanjay Singh by arresting him. "We all know that whenever someone raises their voice against the government, there will be attempts to silence them. Since they couldn't silence him, they arrested him. The BJP should know that AAP is not going to get scared of their arrest threats," she said.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is hearing the bail pleas of former deputy chief minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia, the first high-profile leader from AAP to be arrested in the liquor policy case.
The ED arrested him in a money laundering case stemming from the CBI FIR on March 9 after questioning him in Tihar Jail. Sisodia resigned from the Delhi cabinet on February 28. He was arrested on March 9 and Sisodia resigned from the Delhi cabinet on February 28.
