Lagatar24 Desk
Ranchi, Aug 19: CM Arvind Kejriwal on Friday dismissed it as “attempts on orders from above to create obstacles in the work of the AAP government” and claimed that nothing will come out of it at a press conference, hours after CBI began its raids at deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence.
“New York Times has published a story on the education model of Delhi and reforms in the Delhi government schools. It has the picture of Manish Sisodia (education minister) who has been declared the best education minister in the world. A day after it, CBI reached his residence for raids. Many obstacles will come in our way”, Kejriwal said.
He further added, “This is not the first raid. In the last seven years, several raids have been conducted against Manish Sisodia and lodged several fake cases. Raids have been conducted against me, Satyendra Jain, Kailash Gahlot and many of our leaders. Nothing was found in those raids. Nothing will be found in these raids as well.”
CBI is doing its work. We should not worry about it. Obstacles will not stop us. They have orders from above to trouble us and create obstacles. We have to make sure that obstacles do not stop our work,” he added.
Notably, the raids by the federal agency come around a month after lieutenant governor V K Saxena recommended a CBI probe into alleged irregularities and corruption in the implementation of the Delhi government’s excise policy 2021-22. The CBI registered a case in connection with it naming Sisodia (also the excise minister), former excise commissioner Arava Gopi Krishna and others.
On the other hand, Kejriwal, who recently launched a mission to make India No. 1, released a missed call number ‘9510001000’ inviting people to join his mission to make India the number one country in the world.
Kejriwal appealed to everyone who is interested in the progress of the country to give a missed call on the number and also encourage others to do so. “We have to get 130 crore people connected to this mission. Obstacles will come into the way, but now India will not stop,” the Delhi CM said.
