Day after bail, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal urges India to battle Modi’s ‘dictatorship’

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a media briefing on Saturday (May 11)urged the citizens of India to battle the Modi-led government's "dictatorship".

The AAP leader also claimed that no other party in the country was allegedly "harassed to this extent in the 75 years" the way his party was.

He then took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that all the "thieves" were present in his party and aimed to fight corruption.

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The Delhi CMalso cautioned that if the BJP-led NDA comes to power after the general elections, other opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee, and MK Stalin would also be sent to jail.

"They will send opposition leaders to jail and will finish them ...Our ministers, Hemant Soren (former Jharkhand CM), ministers of Mamata Banerjee's party (Trinamool Congress) are in jail...If they (BJP) win again, then Mamata Banerjee, MK Stalin, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Uddhav Thackeray (UBT Chief) and other opposition leaders will all be in jail...," Kejriwal said while addressing the press.

"...No other party has been harassed to this extent in 75 years. The Prime Minister is saying that he is fighting corruption but all the thieves are in his party," he claimed.

Further hitting out at the Indian prime minister he said that PM Modi should take lessons from him on how to fight corruption.

"I want to say to PM Modi that If you want to fight corruption then learn from Kejriwal...After the formation of the government in Delhi, I dismissed one of my ministers and sent him to jail. In Punjab, we sent a minister to jail," he said.

Kejriwal was addressing the media a day after getting bail and being released from Tihar Jail. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the Delhi excise policy scam case.

The Supreme Court of India on Friday granted Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days till June 1 for elections and he will have surrender on June 2 and return to Tihar Jail.

‘PM Modi making way for Home Minister Amit Shah’: Kejriwal

The AAP national convenor, responding to PM Modi's claims that the INDIA opposition bloc has no prime minister's face claimed that Modi was making way for Home Minister Amit Shah as he was turning 75 next year.

"...These people ask the INDIA alliance who will be their Prime Minister. I ask BJP who will be your Prime Minister? PM Modi is turning 75, on 17th September. He made a rule that leaders in the party would retire after 75 years...LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sumitra Mahajan, and Yashwant Sinha were retired and now PM Modi is going to retire on 17th September...," Kejriwal said.

"If their government is formed, they will first dispose of Yogi Adityanath and then make Amit Shah the Prime Minister of the country. PM Modi is asking for votes for Amit Shah. Will Amit Shah fulfil Modi's guarantee?...," he added.

However, the Union Home Minister, in a press conference later dismissed the claims saying "nothing as such is mentioned in BJP's constitution. PM Modi is only going to complete this tenure and PM Modi will continue to lead the country in future. There is no confusion in BJP..."

Kejriwal was released from Tihar jail on Friday (May 10) after the Indian Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1.

"I want to thank all of you. You gave me your blessings. I want to thank the judges of the Supreme Court, it is because of them that I am in front of you. We have to save the country from dictatorship," he had said after walking out of jail.

(With inputs from agencies)