Senior AAP chief and Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed on Friday (March 22) {that a} pharmacy agency paid Rs 25 crore to the BJP by way of electoral bonds after its director was arrested within the excise coverage case, information company PTI reported.
Addressing a press convention in New Delhi, Bharadwaj additionally said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s life was at risk after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday evening in reference to an excise policy-related cash laundering case.
“It’s being repeatedly mentioned that there’s a risk to the lifetime of Kejriwal who has been arrested with none proof,” Bharadwaj was quoted as saying by PTI.
He claimed {that a} Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm whose director was arrested by the ED in an excise coverage case paid Rs 25 crore in electoral bonds to the BJP in November 2022.
“So the cash path and proceeds of crime on this excise case are heading to the BJP,” he went on to say.
The minister said that there was no proof of a cash path or proceeds of crime in opposition to the AAP and Kejriwal, as charged.
Bharadwaj described Kejriwal’s arrest as “inhuman”. He additionally said that the chief minister’s members of the family, together with his aged mother and father, haven’t been allowed to fulfill with their kinfolk or AAP leaders since Thursday night.
He instructed ANI, “I thank all opposition leaders together with Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, MK Stalin, and Akhilesh Yadav for the love they’ve proven for Kejriwal ji. What’s being performed with Kejriwal is injustice. It’s an try to complete a political social gathering. Our authorized specialists are engaged on the following plan of action. Our social gathering workplace has been transformed right into a cantonment, the ITO metro station has been shut…Is there a Mannequin Code of Conduct imposed? What’s the Election Fee doing?”
#WATCH | On ED arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, AAP chief and Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj says, “…I thank all opposition leaders together with Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, MK Stalin, Akhilesh Yadav for the love they’ve proven for Kejriwal ji. What’s being performed with… pic.twitter.com/gtl0coUGxw
— ANI (@ANI) March 22, 2024