Continuing its attack on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday claimed that the entire country was ashamed over the “politicisation” of Central probe agencies the ED and the CBI by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Launching a scathing attack on the BJP, the AAP said the people will respond to this in the coming Lok Sabha elections 2024.
“The Enforcement Directorate is working as BJP’s political weapon and it wants to get details of AAP’s Lok Sabha election strategy by accessing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s phone,” senior AAP leader Atishi alleged, while claiming that Kejriwal’s mobile phone is a few months old and did not exist when the policy was formed and implemented.
She claimed that the saffron party wants to know the details of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections through Kejriwal’s phone. “They want it because they will find in it details of AAP’s Lok Sabha poll strategy, campaign plans, talks with INDIA bloc leaders and information regarding media and social media strategy,” she said.
AAP spokesperson Jasmine Shah termed ED as the “biggest political washing machine”. Referencing to the electoral bonds, Shah said, “The BJP has developed the biggest political washing machine in the last ten years that churns out election donation and falsehood when businessmen and politicians facing corruption charges are put inside”
He further said NCP (Ajit Pawar camp) leader Praful Patel, who is facing multiple cases, got a clean chit from the CBI.
“The case in which he has been given a clean chit involved the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India when he was Civil Aviation minister. As per CBI charge sheet and a CAG report, there was a big scam involved and Rs 840 crore of public exchequer was lost,” he claimed.
He claimed that Patel was eventually a clean chit when the Ajit Pawar group joined the BJP alliance in Maharashtra.
“The summonses and attachment of properties stopped and no charge sheet was filed and the whole probe has been put on backburner,” he said.
