Arvind Kejriwal News LIVE Updates: Delhi CM remains in ED custody till April 1; wife alleges 'harassment'

Congress leader Gurjeet Singh Aujla said that INDIA alliance is strongly fighting elections but the “BJP is using ED and trying character assassination of those candidates who can win.”

“If BJP has done good work then why don’t they give tickets to the party workers? Why they’re importing people from outside and other parties?… The fight is about who will make the PM, INDIA alliance or they (NDA), we will do everything to make PM,” he said on Thursday.

AAP leader and Delhi minister Gopal Rai said that leadership of all political parties are coming to Delhi on 31st March, for INDIA alliance’ Maha rally, ‘Chalo Ramlila Maidan’.

“Today, around 2,500 teams of AAP have been formed to invite people to join us for ‘Chalo Ramlila Maidan’ on 31st March. I have the confidence that people will reach Ramlila Maidan to protest against Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest. We are in contact with various political parties and their schedule will be finalised soon…”

Congress MP Deepender Hooda says, “…There is anger in the entire country about this (his arrest by ED), we condemn it. INDIA Alliance will hold a rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on March 31…Today the Constitution has come in danger, constitutional rights have come in danger, today there is a need to save the Constitution, democracy…”

BJP Delhi President Virendraa Sachdeva says, “…The investigative agency is doing its work, I think we should let them do their work; everything is going to be apparent when things will come in court…I welcome this decision…”

“CM Arvind Kejriwal had said that give as many days of remand, ED asked for the 7 days and the court granted a 4-days remand. The CM has exposed something big today that the real liquor scam started after the agencies started their investigation… the arrest of the CM is illegal, we have challenged it and the High Court will hear it on April 3…” AAP national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said.

BJP leader Shazia Ilmi says, “…You (Sunita Kejriwal) had said that Arvind Kejriwal would give some explosive statement, but nothing like that happened. Is Kejriwal confused or trying to confuse us all? Because the question here is about bribery, it is about the whole liquor scam, not about electoral bonds…Arvind Kejriwal please explain the difference between electoral bonds and bribery and why he has been found involved in the bribery case…”

VIDEO | Delhi Minister Atishi (@AtishiAAP) reads out the purported statement given by CM Arvind Kejriwal in Rouse Avenue Court.

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“CM (Arvind Kejriwal) tried to explain how all this (his arrest by ED) is a ‘political conspiracy’. They (BJP) don’t want Arvind Kejriwal to participate in the elections. They fear that he is the only one whose questions BJP and PM Modi cannot answer,” says advocate Somnath Bharti on court extending Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s ED custody till April

Sunita Kejriwal voices concern over Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s declining health, alleging harassment amidst ongoing legal proceedings.

CM Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the real liquor scam began post-ED scam and it has created a smokescreen against AAP. The ED launched an extortion racket. This was the real money trail.  Read more here

“It’s being alleged that there it was a ₹100 crore scam…Justice Sanjiv Khanna said that the money trail is not yet traced…The motive of ED is to crush the Aam Aadmi Party,” submits Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal before Rouse Avenue Court during his ED remand hearing.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal before Rouse Avenue Court makes a statement on the issue of electoral bonds and states that BJP is getting money. ED opposes the statement made by Arvind Kejriwal.

Kejriwal alleges political conspiracy behind his arrest. He points out that people are being turned ‘approver’ in the case and they are being forced to change their statements.

“I am named by 4 witnesses in excise policy case, are 4 statements enough to arrest a sitting CM. Smokescreen of AAP being corrupt created in front of nation”: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said in court.

The Enforcement Directorate seeks seven days extension of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s custody remand.

This is a “political conspiracy”, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said as he arrived at the Rouse Avenue Court in the national capital for a hearing in the excise policy-linked money laundering case. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the case on March 21 and subsequently he was sent to remand till March 28 by the court. “This is a political conspiracy. The people will give an answer,” Kejriwal told reporters as he entered the courtroom. He is being produced before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja.

AAP ministers Atishi, Gopal Rai and Saurabh Bharadwaj along with the chief minister’s wife Sunita Kejriwal were inside the court. Court sources said the ED is likely to seek an extension of the chief minister’s custodial remand. .