To reaffirm solidarity with its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and protest against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Delhi liquor policy case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has planned to observe a ‘mass fast’ across India and abroad on Sunday, April 7, 2024.
Delhi Minister Gopal Rai said that from 10 am onwards on Sunday, AAP MLAs, MPs, office bearers, along with party workers and supporters, would observe a mass fast at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi as well as revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s village Khatkhar Kalan in Punjab.
The AAP Delhi unit president further added that the fast would be observed in capital cities of 25 states of India alongside New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington DC in the US, Toronto in Canada, Melbourne in Australia and London in the UK among other cities across the world.
“The voice of Indians living in India and other countries around the world is getting louder against the dictatorship of Modi government and in support of Arvind Kejriwal. The way the centre has conspired and misused agencies to arrest him (Kejriwal), it is getting exposed with each passing day after his arrest,” Gopal Rai said.
He went on to allege that the Modi government (at the Centre) hatched a conspiracy and fabricated a ‘fake liquor scam’ in a bid to finish off the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal.
Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of safeguarding the ‘corrupt people’ within the BJP and maintaining a ‘dual personality’, Goal Rai said that while PM Modi himself talks of eradicating corruption, he is trying to protect people like Ajit Pawar, Ashok Chavan, Chhagan Bhujbal.
Notably, NCP leader Ajit Pawar entered an alliance with the BJP in Maharashtra while Chhagan Bhujbal and Ashok Chavan jumped the ship from the NCP and the Congress, respectively, to join the saffron party recently.
Meanwhile, the tussle between the AAP and the BJP has reached unprecedented bitterness since the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise case last month.
On April 1, Arvind Kejriwal was sent to a 14-day judicial custody in the alleged liquor policy case.
Delhi is slated to vote for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections during the sixth phase scheduled on May 25, 2024.
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