'BJP Wants One Party, One Leader': Raghav Chadha On Central Agencies Actions Against Oppn

During a press conference, AAP leader Raghav Chadha alleged BJP is using agencies to convert India into autocracy.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday accusing it of trying to achieve the goal of making India an opposition-free country. He alleged BJP wants to have one party and one leader in the country, adding that the saffron party wants to dump every politician in jail.

Commenting further on central agencies’ actions against the opposition leaders and parties in the country, Chadha said, “They (BJP) want India to turn into autocracy.”

He said, “BJP’s goal is to make India an opposition-less country. They want India to have one party, and one leader and they want to dump every politician in jail. They want India to turn into autocracy: Raghav Chadha, AAP MP on central agencies' action against the opposition,” as twitted by news agency ANI.

While speaking in the press conference, Chaddha said, “The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not present the lawyer to ensure that Manish Does not get bail.”

He further alleged that the court fixed a date for a hearing eleven days later in the future as the CBI did not present its lawyers deliberately.

Chadha further alleged that the BJP is misusing central agencies to eliminate the opposition in the country.

The AAP leader also said BJP is trying hard to turn India into a country of “One Nation, One Party, One Leader.”

According to him, central agencies are engaged in abusing the process of law in the country. “This is a classic textbook example of abuse of the process of law,” remarked Chadha.

Defending this party, he said that Aam Aadmi Party is not afraid of these jails and these agencies as the party was born out of such struggles in the past.

A Delhi court on Friday sent AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia to ED custody till March 17 in a money laundering case related to the government's excise policy. Special judge MK Nagpal did not turn up to read the order. The information was sent to the lawyers through the court staff, ABP sources said.

The ED arrested Sisodia on Thursday in Tihar jail, just a day before his bail hearing in the case lodged by CBI, which is investigating the corruption angle in the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy for 2021-22. The bail plea in the CBI case will now be heard on March 21.

While seeking Sisodia's custody for 10 days, the ED said the AAP leader had a direct role in the alleged scam and needed to interrogate him to identify the modus operandi and to confront other persons who have been summoned.

The federal agency alleged that Sisodia was not cooperating in the investigation, an argument based on which the CBI had earlier sought the AAP leader's custody.

"It has become a fashion these days that the agencies take arrests as a right. It's time for the courts to come down heavily on this sense of entitlement," Sisodia's lawyer Dayan Krishna said in the court, Live Law reported.