Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, had his home searched by the CBI the day before, and the AAP leader predicted that Sisodia would likely be arrested soon because of the excise policy or the alcohol issue because he served as a minister under Arwind Kejriwal, the city’s chief executive.
According to Sisodia, the raids against him were entirely political in nature and had nothing to do with the claimed contraventions of Delhi’s Excise Policy.
On a day when the CBI conducted raids at numerous sites in connection with a case involving the AAP government’s now-retracted excise policy, Sisodia said earlier on Friday that he and his family had cooperated with the agency, which he said was “being exploited” by the Center.
Sisodia was one of 15 people detained in a CBI-filed FIR. Excise officers, executives from alcohol companies, dealers, as well as some unidentified governmental officials and private citizens, have all been arrested in the case. AAP leader Sanjay Singh reiterated Manish Sisodia’s prior assertion that Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi will face off in the 2024 elections, and he stated that the Congress had also sided with the BJP.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh obtains the majority of its tax revenue from selling alcohol, followed by Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, Singh remarked in response to Union Minister Anurag Thakur’s “freebies” and “bevdi” (drunk) criticism of the Delhi government (you make an army out of drunk people and call us a drunk government).
