‘Arrest us all’: Kejriwal says Sisodia next target

Alok KN Mishra

NEW DELHI: Days after the Enforcement Directorate arrested Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain over alleged money laundering, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said at a press conference on Thursday that central agencies are likely to arrest deputy CM Manish Sisodia in a few days, citing intelligence reports he received from his sources.

Kejriwal, on January 23, in a similar press conference announced “on the basis of sources” that “the ED will arrest Satyendar Jain in the coming days” ahead of the Punjab assembly elections in February. Incidentally, Jain was arrested by the ED on May 30 after he was summoned by the central agency. The Delhi CM, also the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said Jain has been arrested in a fake case.

“I have come to know from the same sources that in the next few days the central government is going to arrest Manish Sisodia. The Centre has asked all central agencies to prepare a fake case against Sisodia and arrest him,” Kejriwal said on Thursday.

He challenged the central government to put all AAP leaders, including himself, in jail together instead of picking them out one at a time. “I would request the PM to put us all together in jail rather than picking us one by one, and use all central agencies to probe us.

Ask all your agencies to take out investigations against all of us at once. Get done with it once and for all,” Kejriwal said.

Later in a separate press conference, AAP MLA Atishi alleged that the central government has asked the CBI, ED, and ACB to trap Sisodia in a fake case and arrest him.

BJP leader and Union minister Smriti Irani dubbed Kejriwal’s claims a conspiracy the