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Arvind Kejriwal to resign from CM post after two days delhi chief minister AAM AADMI PARTY LATEST BREAKING – India TV

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Image Source : VIDEO SCREENGRAB Arvind Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal resignation: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal today (September 15) said that he will resign from the post of Chief Minister just after two days and would demand early polls in the national capital as he vowed not to sit in CM’s chair till people give him a “certificate of honesty”. Kejriwal, who was released on bail from Tihar in the excise policy corruption case, said, “I will only sit on CM’s chair after people give me a certificate of honesty. Want to give ‘agnipariksha’ after coming out of jail.” “I will become chief minister, Sisodia deputy CM only when people say we are honest,” he said. “Until the elections are held, there will be someone else as CM. Both Manish Sisodia and I will not become Chief Minister”, Kejriwal added.  New CM will be decided soon: Kejriwal  Kejriwal announced that another AAP leader will be the Chief Minister till the elections conclude. He said the decision about the new …

Arvind Kejriwal to walk out of Tihar jail timeline of events in excise policy case SC grants bail to delhi cm – India TV

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Image Source : PTI (FILE) Arvind Kejriwal. Delhi excise policy case: In a major relief to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Supreme Court today (September 13) granted him bail in the corruption case linked to the liquor policy case. Apart from allowing Kejriwal’s bail plea, Justice Surya Kant, heading a two-judge bench dismissed his distinct plea challenging the legality of arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the alleged liquor scam. The other judge, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, authored a separate opinion raising serious questions on the timings of arrest by the CBI and held the belated arrest by the central agency to be unjustified. Timeline of Delhi excise policy case and Kejriwal’s arrest November 2021: The Delhi government announced the new excise policy. July 2022: Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena recommends a CBI probe into alleged irregularities with the related excise policy. August 2022: Cases registered by both ED and CBI against Arvind Kejriwal. September 2022: Delhi government decided to scrap the excise policy. October 30, 2023: ED sends summons to Delhi CM …

‘Two CMs were arrested…tribal one still behind bars’: Rahul Gandhi slams Centre | Latest News India

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the central government over the arrest of “tribal CM” former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, alleging that whenever someone is tribal or Dalit, they are “automatically framed”. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File) “Two Chief Ministers were arrested. The tribal CM (Hemant Soren) is still in jail. He was arrested before and is still behind bars. The national media has forgotten him; it doesn’t talk about him… Mayawati is corrupt but not Naveen Patnaik, Lalu Yadav is corrupt…if someone is tribal or Dalit, he is automatically framed,” Gandhi said while addressing a session titled ‘Samvidhan Samman Sammelan’ in Haryana’s Panchkula. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in January in connection with a money laundering case related to the alleged land scam. While he applied for interim bail several times, the courts have continued to refuse it. The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain his bail petition, noting …

SC says it is ‘inclined to consider interim bail’ for Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

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A Supreme Court Bench said it is inclined to consider interim bail for Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal citing the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma A Supreme Court Bench on May 3, 2024, said it is inclined to consider interim bail for Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal citing the upcoming Lok Sabha election. The bench was hearing a plea moved by the Delhi Chief Minister challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged Delhi Excise policy scam. Arvind Kejriwal arrest LIVE updates A Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta earlier said that the ED would have to justify the timing of the Chief Minister’s arrest on March 21, barely a week after the Model Code of Conduct for the Lok Sabha election came into force. While hearing the case, Justice Sanjiv Khanna said the apex court will consider of question of interim bail to the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal because of the …

List of books, personal items court allowed Arvind Kejriwal to carry in jail | Latest News India

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was sent to judicial custody by the Rouse Avenue Court on Monday till April 15. During the hearing, Kejriwal made several demands before the court, including the availability of a few books. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File photo.) The court later allowed him to take several personal items inside his Tihar jail cell, including books, medication as well as his religious locket. The court has also ordered that Kejriwal be provided with home-cooked food while inside jail. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Arvind Kejriwal, who is the first sitting chief minister to be sent to Tihar Jail, was allowed to take three books inside his jail cell – Bhagavad Gita, Ramayan and ‘How Prime Ministers Decide’. He is allowed to read books and watch TV inside the jail, and will remain under 24×7 watch with CCTV cameras. Kejriwal gave a list of six people whom he would like to meet as per rules. The list includes his wife Sunita Kejriwal, their son and …

Sunita Kejriwal says ‘PM Modi jailed my husband’: Top quotes at INDIA rally | Latest News India

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New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal addressed the INDIA bloc’s ‘Loktantra Bachao’ rally on Sunday and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent her husband to jail. Here are the top quotes made by politicians at the Delhi event. Jailed Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal at the rally. (PTI) Sunita Kejriwal said Arvind Kejriwal is a lion Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. “Your own Kejriwal has sent a message for you from jail. Before reading this message, I would like to ask you something. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi put my husband in jail, did the Prime Minister do the right thing? Do you believe that Kejriwal Ji is a true patriot and honest person? These BJP people are saying that if Kejriwal ji is in jail, he should resign. Should he resign? Your Kejriwal is a lion, they will not be able to keep him in jail for long,” she said. Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, …

‘Didn’t expect so soon…was sitting with parents’: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on his arrest by ED | Latest News India

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said he was in the company of his parents when the Enforcement Directorate officials arrived at his residence to arrest him in a money laundering probe linked to a now-scrapped excise policy case. Speaking to India Today, Kejriwal said he was not expecting the arrest so soon and thought the ED would wait for at least two to three days. Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal in Rouse Avenue Court after his Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand hearing in Delhi excise policy case.(ANI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo was arrested Thursday evening, hours after the Delhi high court refused to grant him interim protection from coercive action. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. “I was not expecting it. I did not think ED would come to arrest me so soon. I thought they would wait at least 2-3 days before arresting me,” India Today quoted Kejriwal as saying. Narrating the circumstances of his arrest, the 55-year-old leader …

ED being used to hound opposition leaders: Brinda Karat | Latest News India

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New Delhi, CPI leader Brinda Karat on Friday condemned the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and alleged that the Enforcement Directorate was being used by the BJP government to hound opposition leaders. HT Image Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on Thursday night in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. “We very very strongly condemn the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. It is a lawless act. It is completely motivated by politics of the forthcoming elections, and the ruling party is very clearly using the ED as an instrument to hound the opposition, to weaken the opposition by arresting its leaders, and by harassing opposition leaders,” Karat told PTI videos. “Elections have been announced and you’re going to arrest chief ministers. It is absolutely unacceptable. Our party is also protesting against it. We join the protest of the A, and demand there should be an immediate reversal of the arrest,” she said. On accusations that Kejriwal’s family was not being …

‘BJP jittery ahead of LS polls’: INDIA bloc slams Centre over Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest | Latest News India

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Several political parties condemned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the ED on Thursday, claiming that it shows how “jittery” the ruling BJP at the Centre is with less than a month to go for the Lok Sabha polls. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal being arrested by ED following a raid, in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Photo by HT/ Hindustan Times)(Hindustan Times) The opposition parties also accused the BJP of indulging in vendetta politics. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an excise policy-linked money laundering case on Thursday evening, officials said. Reacting to the development, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are in “panic” over their impending rejection by people in the Lok Sabha polls. “Strongly condemn the arrest of Delhi CM, Shri Arvind Kejriwal by the ED. It’s the second sitting CM of the INDIA bloc to be arrested,” Yechury …