Hitting out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his allegations of a conspiracy to kill him in prison, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reminded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo that the Tihar Jail comes under his administration.
“Look, Tihar Jail comes under the Delhi government, whose Chief Minister is Kejriwal ji. So is he conspiring to kill himself?” Amit Shah said in an interview to Network18 Group Editor Rahul Joshi.
“Prisons report straight to the Delhi government,” he added.
Last month, addressing an INDIA bloc rally in Jharkhand’s Ranchi, Delhi CM’s wife Sunit Kejriwal claimed the BJP wants to kill her husband in jail.
“They want to kill my husband Arvind Kejriwal. His food is under camera observation. He is denied insulin. My husband is a sugar patient who has been on insulin for 12 years; he needs 50 units of insulin daily,” Sunita alleged.
She further claimed that Kejriwal was jailed for working for the people “Jan Seva” and no charges could be proved against him.
With two chief ministers – Arvind Kejriwal and Hemant Soren – being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) just before the Lok Sabha Election 2024, the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of using the central agencies to intimidate the opposition parties.
The Supreme Court has also questioned the ED regarding the timing of these arrests. Amit Shah, however, blamed the the opposition leaders for the controversy.
“ED will explain that before the Supreme Court. But I want to tell you that they did not appear after many summons. If they had appeared after the first summon, they would have been arrested six months before the elections. Many times summons were sent, but they did not come,” Shah said.
Asserting that the BJP plans to implement the policy of ‘One Nation, One Election’, Shah also slammed Rahul Gandhi for blaming EVMs for the electoral woes of the Congress.
“I will first clarify one thing: Rahul Gandhi ji does not think about what he says. If we won because of EVM, then why did we lose in Telangana, or in Tamil Nadu? Why have we been losing in Kerala for years? Why did we lose in Himachal and Bengal? Then Rahul Gandhi should say it clearly that “even if we [Congress] win in the outcome shown by EVMs, we will not take oath”. If they win, they take oath wearing new clothes. When they lose, they blame it on EVMs. What kind of politics is this? When you win, EVM is right. When you lose, EVM is useless. Don’t the people of the country understand all this?” he said.
“The people of the country understand this, but I am surprised why such a big party does not change the advisor of its leader. I see from a distance. I am surprised. Well, forget it, it is their party’s question. ‘One nation, one election’ is the issue of our manifesto, and we will make every effort to implement it.”
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