Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal attended the INDIA bloc rally at Ramlila Maidan on Sunday and read out a message from her husband who is in the Enforcement Directorate custody in connection with an excise policy-linked case.
“Your own Arvind Kejriwal has sent a message for you from jail. Before reading this message, I would like to ask you something. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi put my husband in jail, did the Prime Minister do the right thing? Do you believe that Kejriwal Ji is a true patriot and honest person? These BJP people are saying that Kejriwal ji is in jail, he should resign. Should he resign? Your Kejriwal is a lion, they will not be able to keep him in jail for long…,” Sunita Kejriwal said at the gathering.
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As top opposition leaders gathered at Ramlila Maidan for the ‘Loktantra Bachao’ rally, Sunita Kejriwal said, “The people of Delhi have faced injustice in last 75 years. We will make Delhi a full state if the INDIA bloc comes to power.”
Sunita Kejriwal also said Mother India is in pain. This tyranny won’t work. “My husband is getting lots of blessings,” she said at the INDIA block rally.
Reading out Arvind Kejriwal’s message from jail, Sunita Kejriwal said, “My dear fellow Indians. Accept greetings from your son, your brother from jail. I am not asking for your vote. In the upcoming elections, I am not even discussing winning or losing with anyone. Today, I invite all 1.4 billion people of this country to build a greater India.”
“God has gifted everything to India. Yet, why are we lagging behind? Why are we illiterate? I am here in jail, where I have plenty of time to think. I think for Mother India. Mother India is very sad. Mother India is in pain, she is crying out in agony,” Sunita Kejriwal said as she read out the Delhi CM’s message.
Top INDIA bloc leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Akhilesh Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav attended the rally being held in the backdrop of Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest just before the Lok Sabha polls.
At the rally, Sunita Kejriwal also read out six poll promises pitched by jailed Arvind Kejriwal. There are:
1. Countrywide 24-hour electricity.
2. The poor in country will get free electricity.
3. Every village and mohalla will get a good government school.
4. Every village, and mohalla will get a mohalla clinic.
5. Farmers will get MSP as per the Swaminathan Committee report.
6. Full statehood for Delhi.
BJP’s dig at Sunita Kejriwal
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad alleged Arvind Kejriwal seems to have drawn inspiration from INDIA bloc ally Lalu Prasad who gave reins of power to his wife upon coming under the dragnet.
Prasad, who held the law and justice portfolio in the first seven years of Narendra Modi’s Prime Ministership, was asked about the Aam Aadmi Party chief’s refusal to give up his post, nearly a week after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a case of money laundering.
“These days Kejriwal’s wife seems to have become quite active. She can be seen in the chair that her husband used to occupy as the chief minister of Delhi,” Prasad said.
