Confident Supreme Court will allow Kejriwal to campaign: Delhi Minister Bhardwaj
Delhi Cabinet Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj on Sunday said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is confident that the Supreme Court will allow Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to campaign in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, news agency PTI reported.
The Supreme Court will hear on Monday Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam. Kejriwal presented his side before the Supreme Court through an affidavit.
According to PTI report, the AAP leader said that Kejriwal has mentioned ED and CBI in his affidavit and said that the job of the investigating agencies is to present the truth before the court.
“If CBI and ED got 1 lakh pages of documents and 80,000 of them are in favor of Arvind Kejriwal and AAP, then those 80,000 documents were not produced before the court, only those documents were produced which, by putting pressure on people, They were taken away after putting them in jail.” “By luring people with bail, luring people with amnesty, luring people with tickets to contest elections from the NDA, only those testimonies were produced before the court by the ED and CBI,” Bhardwaj said, quoted by PTI. Report.
He said that Kejriwal is the “most vocal voice of the opposition” and if he was out of jail, he would have campaigned for all the parties of the India Bloc. “We are sure that to save democracy and protect the election system in this country, the Supreme Court will definitely allow Arvind Kejriwal to campaign,” he said, according to a PTI report.
The Delhi Health Minister claimed that the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation have been investigating this matter for almost two years and are issuing dozens of notices. “However, neither the ED nor the CBI has been able to present a single evidence against Arvind Kejriwal.”
He said that the AAP leader has been arrested as part of a conspiracy to stop him from campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday claimed that the Election Commission has “banned” its Lok Sabha campaign song “Jail ka Jawab, Vote Se Denge”, but officials of the Delhi poll body said AAP has been banned over the content of the song. Was asked to modify. This violated Election Commission guidelines and the advertising code.
The over two-minute Lok Sabha Elections 2024 campaign song, written and sung by AAP MLA Dilip Pandey, was released at the party headquarters here on Thursday.
In a statement, the Delhi Chief Electoral Office said that during the review and scrutiny of the advertisement submitted by AAP, the Media Pre Certification Committee headed by the Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi, made certain observations in the context of various provisions and guidelines prescribed by the Election Commission of India. commission.
“The said creative/advertisement was returned with comments with a request to modify the content of the creative as per the advertising code prescribed under the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 and ECI guidelines/norms vide letter dated August 24, 2023 . For authentication, resubmit after modification,” it said.
The party has also been informed that if it does not agree with the committee’s decision, it can file an appeal before the state-level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee, the statement said.
(With inputs from PTI)