We’re not afraid, they conducted raids earlier too, says Delhi CM

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, on Sunday said he had been informed by sources that the Enforcement Department (ED) might arrest his Cabinet Minister Satyendar Jain just before the Assembly elections in Punjab.

 “From our sources, we have got to know that right before the Punjab polls in the coming few days the ED is going to arrest the Health and Home Minister of Delhi, Satyendar Jain. They are most welcome. Previously too, the Centre had conducted raids on Satyendar Jain but got nothing,” Kejriwal said in a virtual press conference.

 “We are not afraid of that as well. Once you tread on the path of truth, you are ready to overcome all these obstacles as well,” the AAP’s national convenor said.

Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kejriwal said that neither AAP leaders fear the jails, nor the BJP Government’s raids. “Come what may, we are here to serve Delhi; I appeal to the BJP to send the CBI, Income Tax and Delhi Police behind us. We know that we have not done anything wrong. We have faced this earlier too, we are just waiting for them to come now,” Kejriwal added.

 “We won’t spiral into a hue and cry spectacle like Charanjit Singh Channi; he was on the wrong side and his mountains of cash have been exposed. If the BJP wants, they can raid my house or deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and the party’s Punjab CM candidate Bhagwant Mann as well. We will all welcome them with wide smiles,” he added.

 Kejriwal said as a party and as a family, the Central Government has conducted malicious raids against Jain two times prior to this as well. “They couldn’t find even a penny worth’s mistake back then. We’ll be happy to have them around this time as well. We have nothing to fear,” he said.