Delhi LG hoists national flag; AAP cries ‘dictatorship’

New Delhi [India], August 15 (ANI): Led by Sunita Kejriwal, wife of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the ruling Aam Admi Party launched a veiled attack on the Centre after the tricolour was not hoisted at the CM’s residence.

In a post on X in Hindu, Sunita Kejriwal said, “Today the tricolour was not hoisted at the CM’s residence. It is very sad. This dictatorship can keep an elected Chief Minister in jail, but how can it stop the patriotism in the heart…”

The attack came after Delhi LG VK Saxena hoisted the national flag at his official residence on Independence Day.

Sunita Kejriwal was responding to a tweet from Delhi Minister Atishi, who said, “Let us pledge on this Independence Day that we will continue to fight against dictatorship till our last breath.”

Atishi said in a post on X, “Today is Independence Day when India got freedom from British dictatorship in 1947. Hundreds of freedom fighters faced lathi-charge, went to jail and sacrificed their lives – to get us this freedom. They would not have even imagined in their dreams that one day, in independent India, an elected Chief Minister would be framed in a false case and kept in jail for months… Let us pledge on this Independence Day that we will continue to fight against dictatorship till our last breath.”

She was referring to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been jailed in connection with alleged irregularities in the now-scraped Delhi excise policy case.

Former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in his post on X said, “On the anniversary of “Independence from the British”, we salute the spirit that is today imprisoned in the dictator’s prison to “save freedom from dictatorship.”

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on pleas of Arvind Kejriwal seeking bail and challenging the Delhi High Court order upholding his arrest by the CBI in a corruption case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam.

Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21, 2024, in connection with a money laundering probe relating to alleged irregularities in the now-cancelled Delhi excise policy 2021-22.

On June 26, 2024, the AAP Chief was arrested by CBI while he was in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate.