New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should take on more responsibility and resign in the wake of the High Court's order rejecting the plea against his arrest and remand in the excise policy case. should give.
Kejriwal was issued nine summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) between November 2023 and March 2024. The minister claimed that he had been avoiding these notices on some pretext or the other in the last six months.
"Now the time has come for Arvind Kejriwal to take moral responsibility and resign from the post of Chief Minister of Delhi," Puri said in a statement.
He said the law has caught up with him and the court has been "merciless" in upholding his remand while hearing his arrest by the ED and the petition challenging his arrest.
Puri said it was "shameless" for Kejriwal to continue as chief minister, adding that he should resign and let someone else run the Delhi government.
AAP leaders have accused BJP of trying to destroy the party and Kejriwal by sending him to jail and then toppling his government in Delhi by buying MLAs.
Commenting on the high court order, AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj said the so-called excise policy case was not a case of money laundering but a "big political conspiracy" against Kejriwal to topple him and the party-ruled governments in Delhi and Punjab. " Was.
Kejriwal was issued nine summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) between November 2023 and March 2024. The minister claimed that he had been avoiding these notices on some pretext or the other in the last six months.
"Now the time has come for Arvind Kejriwal to take moral responsibility and resign from the post of Chief Minister of Delhi," Puri said in a statement.
He said the law has caught up with him and the court has been "merciless" in upholding his remand while hearing his arrest by the ED and the petition challenging his arrest.
Puri said it was "shameless" for Kejriwal to continue as chief minister, adding that he should resign and let someone else run the Delhi government.
AAP leaders have accused BJP of trying to destroy the party and Kejriwal by sending him to jail and then toppling his government in Delhi by buying MLAs.
Commenting on the high court order, AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj said the so-called excise policy case was not a case of money laundering but a "big political conspiracy" against Kejriwal to topple him and the party-ruled governments in Delhi and Punjab. " Was.
