Anurag Thakur targets AAP over arrested mantri’s claim of post-Covid memory loss
New Delhi, June 14: BJP leader and Union minister Anurag Thakur, on Tuesday, targeted the AAP leadership over arrested Delhi minister Satyendar Jain’s reported claim of post-Covid memory loss and wondered how such a person continued to be minister.
He questioned chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for keeping such a person in his Cabinet and wondered how he could run the departments under him. Mr Thakur also wondered how Jain could remember people in Himachal Pradesh, where he is the in-charge of party affairs.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reportedly informed a trial court that Jain has claimed he had lost his memory due to the effect of Covid-19 infection when confronted with documents related to alleged hawala transactions during his questioning.
Jain was arrested by the ED, on May 30, on money laundering charges in a case linked to alleged illegal financial transactions. He is in judicial custody at present. Assets worth `4.81 crore linked to Jain’s family were also attached by the ED in April this year.
“I wonder how people who lose their memory continue in some governments and remain as ministers. Kejriwal ji has kept such ministers who have memory loss,” Mr Thakur told reporters after a Cabinet briefing.
A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved its order against the bail plea of Satyendar Jain, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case. Special Judge Geetanjali Goel reserved the order after hearing arguments from Jain as well the ED.
The agency had taken Jain into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. He is currently in judicial custody.
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