Failing to get any reprieve from the Delhi High Court, the Aam Aadmi Party Tuesday said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will move the Supreme Court against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate, and maintained the excise police case was the “biggest political conspiracy of the country” to finish the party.  The AAP has claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have failed to recover even one rupee of illegal money in the case.

Senior AAP leader and Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj told a press conference soon after the HC order that they are hopeful the Supreme Court will provide relief to Kejriwal in the same way it granted bail to AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh recently.

 “We respect the institution of the high court but we respectfully submit that we do not agree with its order and will move the Supreme Court against it,” Bharadwaj said.

“The so-called excise policy scam is the biggest political conspiracy to finish off the party and Kejriwal,” he alleged.

“The entire matter is not related to money laundering, rather it’s the biggest political conspiracy of the country. It’s a conspiracy to crush and finish off Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP governments in Delhi and Punjab,” he said.

Bharadwaj said they are hopeful that the Supreme Court will provide relief to Kejriwal in the same way it granted bail to AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in the case.

AAP leader Jasmine Shah, who also addressed the presser, said, “The investigation has been going on for two years but not even a single penny has been recovered. But what happens? You arrest top leaders of a national party and put them in jail as part of a conspiracy.”

In Chandigarh, AAP MP Sanjay Singh lashed out at the BJP, terming the money laundering case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as the “biggest conspiracy”. Addressing the media here, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Singh expressed hope that the party supremo would get relief from the Supreme Court in the matter.