ED Wants To Know AAP's LS Polls Strategy By Accessing Kejriwal's Phone, Claims Atishi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the ED in a money laundering case linked to Delhi excise policy case.

Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Atishi on Friday alleged that the Enforcement Agency was working as Bharatiya Janata Party' political tool and wants to get the access of Arvind Kejriwal's mobile phone to get details of the AAP's Lok Sabha poll strategy. AAP national convener, Arving Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 in a money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy case and is in the custody of the central agency till April 1. 

Addressing a press conference in the national capital, Atishi alleged that the federal probe agency insistence to look into Kejriwal's phone "which is a few months old" and "did not exist at the time when the policies were implemented" proves that the agency is working as a "political weapon" of the BJP.  

"Actually it is the BJP and not the ED that wants to know what is there on Kejriwal's phone," she said. 

She claimed that while the excise policy was implemented in 2021-22, the mobile phone currently being used by the chief minister is just a few months old, adding that the ED has said that Kejriwal's phone of that period is not available, and now, it wants the password of his new phone. 

"They want it because they will find in it details of AAP's Lok Sabha poll strategy, campaign plans, talks with INDIA bloc leaders and information regarding media and social media strategy," she said.

The liquor policy which was implemented by the AAP dispensation in 2021 and was scrapped the next year following allegations of corruption.  

On Friday, Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal held another digital media briefing where she launched a WhatsApp campaign urging people to support her husband.