CM Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on 21 March by the Enforcement Director in the liqour policy scam and was granted interim bail by supreme court till June 1 for campaigning for Lok Sabha elections 2024.
He will be returning today to Tihar Jail by 3pm as his 21 day interim bail comes to an end. Before leaving, Kejriwal will visit few places including Raj Ghat to pay tribute to the ‘Father of the nation’ Mahatma Gandhi ,to seek blessings of Lord Hanuman in Connaught Place’s Hanuman Mandir and finally to the AAP office to meet all the workers and party leaders, he posted on ‘X’.
He thanked supreme court for granting him bail so that he could campaign for his party and he is confident that INDI Bloc will get 270+ seats on June 4.
“I have to surrender on June 2”, says Kejriwal (source: The Mint)
Exit Polls did not go in favour of INDIA Alliance, Kejriwal insisted unity among AAP leaders.
Ahead of his surrender Kejriwal hosted a meeting on June 1 at his residence and insisted the AAP members to maintain unity among leaders in his absence as per the reports of PTI.
He later attended another meeting with INDIA Bloc to discuss the performance as Exit polls suggested a clean sweep for NDA with over 350 seats and some polls even showed the Naara of ‘abki baar 400 paar’ turning out be true. The INDIA alliance on the other hand are predicted to get 130-166 seats according to polls of Axis My India.
BJP Cleaning the Delhi seats replicating 2019 results (source: Business Standard)
Kejriwal applied for a seven day extension of the interim bail in Supreme Court on medical grounds as he said that he is losing weight and has high ketone levels and his health deteriorated during his time in Tihar Jail.But SC refused the urgent listing of his plea.
Kejriwal then moved to special CBI-ED Court and court has reserved its order for June 5. ED has opposed his plea’s, arguing that he seemed absolutely fine throughout his election campaigns.
