Delhi BJP President Virender Sachdeva turned up the heat on Thursday, asserting that Arvind Kejriwal’s days of evasion in the Delhi liquor policy scam are numbered, culminating in certain conviction and incarceration. The trigger: Kejriwal’s provocative X post of ‘Satyamev Jayate’ celebrating a court’s rejection of two ED petitions over his no-shows for questioning.
Sachdeva dissected the ploy, clarifying the court nixed only the summons validity, not the overarching money laundering case implicating Kejriwal as mastermind. This misrepresentation, he charged, insults the motto and perpetuates Kejriwal’s legacy of falsehoods.
‘You can’t claim exoneration from quashed procedural steps,’ Sachdeva thundered, highlighting ongoing trial evidence of policy manipulations that siphoned public money into private pockets via kickbacks and favored licenses.
Delhi BJP’s Praveen Shankar Kapoor reinforced this, calling the tweet a blatant untruth. He schooled on law: arrest and bail nullify prior summons challenges, leaving the scam’s meaty allegations intact for prosecution.
Unpacking the scam’s anatomy, it involved a 2021 policy shift promising ‘free markets’ but delivering monopoly profits to AAP allies, with losses running into thousands of crores. ED probes unearthed hawala trails and electoral bonds links. BJP positions this as AAP’s Achilles heel, with Sachdeva urging judicial finality to restore probity. As Delhi eyes the unfolding drama, Kejriwal’s tweet risks boomeranging amid mounting proofs.