Arvind Kejriwal Is 'Modern-Day Mahatma Gandhi With Unimpeachable Integrity': Raghav Chadha — WATCH

Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha called Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal "modern-day Mahatma Gandhi" attacking the BJP over CBI summon to the AAP national convenor in liquor policy case.

Defending Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha said that the AAP national convenor is "modern-day Mahatma Gandhi with unimpeachable integrity". The remarks comes as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will question Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the now-withdrawn liquor policy case on Sunday. 

"Aam Aadmi Party is born by agitation, we have faced lathis, water cannons, and tear gas to come this far. I want to tell the BJP that AAP leaders are not afraid of your probe agencies. We are not afraid of your ED, CBI, search and seizure memos, raids, and prison," he said.

He emphatically added that leaders of Aam Aadmi Party will keep struggling to make India the number 1 country in the world. "I have no hesitation in saying that Arvind Kejriwal is a modern-day Mahatma Gandhi with unimpeachable integrity," Raghav Chadha emphasised.

Earlier in the day, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the CBI and ED were torturing people to take his and Manish Sisodia's name in the Delhi liquor policy scam case. "CBI, ED filed false affidavits in excise policy case in court; they're torturing people to testify against Manish Sisodia and me," he said in a press conference today. 

CBI To Question Arvind Kejriwal Tomorrow

Kejriwal has been summoned by the CBI at 11 am tomorrow at the agency's headquarters in Delhi.

AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has already been arrested by the CBI in the case. Sisodia has also been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering related to the alleged excise scam.

The excise policy 2021-22 was scrapped in August last year and the Delhi L-G later asked the CBI to probe alleged irregularities.

The CBI has alleged that the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, an accusation strongly refuted by the AAP.