‘My name is Arvind Kejriwal... I’m not a terrorist’: CM’S latest message from Tihar

“MY NAME is Arvind Kejriwal, and I am not a terrorist.” This is the Delhi Chief Minister’s message to the people from jail, said senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh Tuesday.

The CM’S assertion borrows fromshahrukhkhan-starrer‘my Name is Khan’ in 2010 in which the actor famously says “My Name is Khan and I am not a terrorist”. Arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the excise policy case, Kejriwal is lodged in Tihar.

Posting a video on X (formerly Twitter), Singh said: “The BJP and the Prime Minister are treating Kejriwal like a terrorist .... You have... so much malice and hatred that you make him (Kejriwal) speak to his family, his wife through a glass wall... The Punjab CM who has Z+ category security was made to meet the three-time elected CM through a smudged glass wall...”

On Monday, Punjab CM

Bhagwant Mann, who met Kejriwal in prison, claimed the chief minister is being treated like a “big terrorist” and was made to speak to him on a phone through a glass wall.

Accusing the PM of “harassing” and “humiliating” Kejriwal in jail, Singh added, “By putting him under 24-hour CCTV surveillance... your (Modi’s) mind is working 24 hours on how to demoralise Kejriwal... But, I want to tell you that Kejriwal is made of sterner stuff...”

In response, Delhi BJP

President Virendra Sachdeva said AAP’S leaders are making fools of Delhi residents and that the CM is not facing any torture. “People of Delhi have lost sympathy for Kejriwal... Jail authorities, bound by the Delhi Prison manual and the direction of the court concerned, are allowing all facilities to the jailed CM...”

Referring to the CM’S latest message from jail, Sachdeva added, “Yes he is not a terrorist but he should have said ‘I am Arvind Kejriwal involved in liquor scam’.”