Arvind Kejriwal should resign immediately: Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva

New Delhi, March 21

The BJP demanded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s immediate resignation after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in an excise policy-linked money-laundering case.

“Today, every citizen of Delhi is satisfied that the chief minister, implicated in allegations of corruption, has finally been arrested,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva told reporters.

“The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal is the defeat of corruption. Kejriwal should resign immediately,” he said.

Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant him protection from any coercive action by the agency.

Agency officials said the 55-year-old AAP national convener would be produced before a court here on Friday and the ED would seek his custody for interrogation in the case.

Delhi BJP president Sachdeva said the liquor scam started in Delhi in 2021-22, and one revelation after another exposed how corruption took place and money was laundered.

“While Kejriwal staged a drama against drugs in Punjab, he pushed the youth into the abyss of addiction by opening liquor shops and bar rooms in every street in Delhi,” he charged.

He said AAP leaders’ statements that Kejriwal will run the government from jail “is an insult to constitutional norms”.

“(Then Jharkhand chief minister) Hemant Soren also said the same thing, but upon being arrested (in a separate case), he had to resign, and the same will happen in Delhi as well,” Sachdeva said.