Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said he hoped he would be out of prison in 7-8 months, but it took 17 months for him to secure bail in the cases related to alleged liquor policy scam.
Addressing party cadres a day after release in Delhi, Sisodia charged a conspiracy is being hatched to defame Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s work. “We are just horses of a chariot but our real 'saarthi' (Arvind Kejriwal) is in jail, he will come out soon,” PTI reported quoting Sisodia.
Lashing out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre, Sisodia said truth triumphed in the end the Supreme Court used the power of the Constitution to trample dictatorship. Targeting the BJP over wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification from the Paris Olympics, Sisodia charged, “She protested against your leader, we saw what happened at Olympics.”
The AAP leader said he was pained to see businessmen getting jailed in fake cases just because they did not donate funds to the BJP. Sisodia urged the opposition should unite against the dictatorship. “If opposition leaders unite against dictatorship, Arvind Kejriwal will come out of jail in 24 hours,” he said.
The Supreme Court granted bail to Sisodia on Friday, in cases registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam. The Court observed Sisodia was deprived of the right to speedy trial in the case hence he was granted the bail. Sisodia was imprisoned for 17 months in connection with the probe.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 last year over irregularities in the Delhi excise policy. The Enforcement Directorate ED arrested him in the money laundering case stemming from the CBI FIR on March 9 last year. He resigned from the Delhi cabinet on February 28, 2023.
Earlier in the day, Sisodia visited the Hanuman Mandir in Connaught Place and Rajghat. The AAP leader paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial in Rajghat.
