The Delhi BJP and Congress on Wednesday escalated its attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and AAP minister Satyendar Jain, arrested in different corruption cases, resigned from the cabinet on Tuesday.
According to the details, the BJP protested at over 10 locations in the national capital, including the ITO Chowk, demanding the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Working President Virendra Sachdeva and Delhi BJP incharge Baijayant Panda were also expected to join the protests shortly.
Meanwhile, police personnel were deployed and security was strengthened in the area to avoid any untoward incident.
SISODIA AND JAIN’s ARREST
AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, both of whom resigned from the Delhi cabinet, were considered key faces of the government.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on Sunday, in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi excise policy for 2021-22, Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in May last year in a money laundering case.
Sisodia is considered closest to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. He had been with Kejriwal before the inception of the party.
He held 18 departments before resigning from the state cabinet on Tuesday. Key portfolios like education, Public Works Department, finance and all other departments not specifically allotted to any minister were under Sisodia.
He was also looking after portfolios that were held by Jain before his arrest.
Meanwhile, Satyendar Jain served as Delhi’s health minister before his arrest.
After his arrest, Kejriwal said that he was put behind bars to impede the progress of work being carried out under him.
Even after his arrest, Jain continued to be a minister without any portfolios in the cabinet. While he was in prison, videos of him getting head massages and body massages surfaced, which the AAP said were physiotherapy sessions.
The two ministers tendered their resignations on Tuesday amid corruption allegations, with the AAP saying they had become victims of the BJP’s “politics of arrogance”.
DELHI L-G FORWARDS RESIGNATION OF JAIN, SISODIA TO PRESIDENT
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena received the resignation letters of both Sisodia and Jain, and forwarded them to President Droupadi Murmu.
“The L-G upon request from the chief minister to accept the resignations of ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyander Jain, on February 28, has recommended to the President, that the resignations may be accepted,” said a Raj Niwas official.
The opposition BJP had been demanding the resignation of Jain after his arrest in May last year by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.