Kejriwal’s wife preparing to hold CM’S post
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal on Friday launched a Whatsapp campaign “Kejriwal ko Aashirwad”, urging people to support her husband, who is in the ED’S custody in an excise policy-linked money-laundering case.
Taking a potshot at the AAP, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri compared Kejriwal to former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and said she is perhaps preparing to hold the post of her husband.
“The madam you are naming is perhaps preparing to hold the post like Rabri Devi did in Bihar,” the senior BJP leader told reporters at the inauguration of the Delhi BJP’S election office.
He was responding to a question about Kejriwal, who has been briefing the media on behalf of her husband since his arrest by the ED last week.
When Puri was asked how serious a challenge the Aap-congress alliace in Delhi was for the BJP, he said, “Which alliance? What are you talking aboutess) have not released the names of candidates.”
The Union minister also slammed the AAP and its leaders, saying they joined politics pledging to fight corruption and now they have allied with the “most corrupt” Congress. In a seat-sharing agreement, the AAP is contesting four Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, while the Congress has to declare candidates on the remaining three of the total seven parliamentary constituencies in the national capital.
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal in a video message, the campaign was launched to collect support for Delhi’s CM and she said that her husband has challenged the "most corrupt and dictatorial forces" in the country and asked people to support him through their blessings and prayers.