NEW DELHI: Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had sent him a “false summons,” adding that he had told the ED why the summons was unlawful and that his greatest quality and strength was his “honesty.” The Chief Minister of Delhi stated, “All of the BJP’s agencies have conducted numerous raids over the last two years, but not a single penny was found,” during a press conference on Thursday. Where is the money if corruption exists? Leaders of the AAP are detained in these fictitious cases. BJP now wants to put me in jail. My honesty is my greatest quality and strength.” The chief minister of Delhi questioned why the notice was sent out so close to the Lok Sabha elections of 2024 and claimed that the BJP was trying to prevent him from running for office. “I wrote the question and sent it to ED after receiving legal advice that the summons was unlawful. Must I comply with an invalid summons? Should a formal summons be issued, I will honour it. Why am I being called right before the elections to the Lok Sabha? When CBI called me eight months ago, I went and provided all the information. They want to prevent me from running for the Lok Sabha elections today,” he continued. The AAP chief went on to say that he has always fought for the country and will continue to do so until the day he dies. “Today, ED is being used to integrate opposition leaders into the BJP. Everyone who joins his party solves all of his problems. Honest leaders like Vijay Nair, Sanjay Singh, and Manish Sisodia have been imprisoned today. I have consistently battled for my nation. My every breath is dedicated to the nation. Together, we must save the nation. I need your help, I’m fighting them with everything I have,” he declared. The chief minister of Delhi disregarded the ED’s third summons, which was sent to him on Wednesday. In relation to the alleged Delhi liquor scam case, the ED issued CM Kejriwal a third summons on December 22 of last year, requesting that he appear before the agency on January 3. In his response to the ED earlier on Wednesday, Kejriwal stated that he was willing to assist with the investigation but that he would not be attending the scheduled date of the summons because the notice was “illegal.” Kejriwal also questioned the agency about why it hadn’t replied to his previous responses regarding the agency’s investigation into the nature of the summons that he had received. “As a premier investigating agency, the non-disclosure and non-response approach adopted by you cannot sustain the test of law, equity, or justice,” the Delhi CM wrote in his written response to the ED. Your intransigence amounts to taking on the roles of judge, jury, and executioner simultaneously, which is unacceptable in a nation where the rule of law is upheld.” “In these circumstances, I urge you to respond to my earlier response and clarify the position so as to enable me to understand the real intent, ambit, nature, sweep and scope of the purported inquiry/investigation for which I am being called” he stated in his reply.
