Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that he is “fully prepared” to go to jail in order to save India. “I am fully prepared to go to jail on June 2 and I am proud that I am going to jail to save my country,” Kejriwal told news agency PTI hours after the Supreme Court refused to hear his plea seeking to extend his bail by a week.
Taking a shot at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kejriwal said that the saffron party has “no evidence” of the alleged Rs 100 crore scam. “They (BJP) are saying that Kejriwal did corruption; people are saying if Kejriwal is corrupt, then no one in this world is honest. They have no evidence; they claimed a scam of Rs 100 crore and raided 500 places, but did not recover a single penny,” the Delhi CM said.
Sharpening his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kejriwal said that he was put behind bars because the work done by him “cannot be done by Modi ji.”
“I gave free electricity to people in Delhi and Punjab, Modi ji cannot do it. I built excellent government schools for children, Modi ji cannot do it,” Kejriwal said.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Supreme Court rejected Kejriwal’s bail extension plea and asked him to surrender before Tihar jail authorities on June 2, a day after the seventh and last phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election ends.
The Delhi CM has sought an extension of his interim bail by seven days to undergo a host of medical checkups.
Kejriwal had filed a fresh plea on May 26, urging the court to allow him to surrender before prison authorities on June 9 instead of June 2, the scheduled date for his return to custody.
On May 10, the apex court granted 21-day interim bail to the chief minister. He was arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy ‘scam’.
(With inputs from PTI)