Scared of Arvind Kejriwal's growing popularity: AAP leader Atishi attacks Centre

As Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI for questioning in connection with the excise policy case Delhi Minister Atishi attacked the BJPled Centre claiming it was scared of the growing popularity of the Aam Aadmi Party AAP national convenorPrime Minister Narendra Modi is scared of the growing popularity of Arvind Kejriwal This is the reason why the leaders of AAP are being put in jail This is the reason Arvind Kejriwal has been called for questioning by CBI They say that it is a scam of thousands of crores but till now they have not been able to prove that even a single rupee was embezzled The entire country is with Arvind Kejriwal Atishi told ANIKejriwal on Sunday arrived at the CBI office in the national capital for questioning in connection with the excise policy caseKejriwal was accompanied by his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Maan Delhi ministers and AAP MPs to the CBI officeAlso Read BJP has instructed CBI to arrest me will honestly answer questions posed by agency Arvind KejriwalI will answer all the questions BJP leaders are talking about it my arrest The CBI is controlled by BJP Kejriwal told reporters outside the CBI officeAhead of appearing before the CBI the Delhi chief minister paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial Rajghat in the national capitalThe AAP national convenor attacked the Centre saying some antinational forces do not want India to developSome antinational forces do not want India to develop I want to tell these forces that the country will continue to progress Kejriwal told reporters before leaving his residenceEarlier on Sunday Kejriwal held a highlevel meeting with top leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party AAP on Sunday ahead of joining The meeting was held at Kejriwals residenceSeveral Delhi ministers including Atishi Kailash Gahlot Rajkumar Anand Gopal Rai and Imran Hussain were present at the meeting Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan and Punjab Assembly speaker Sardar Kultar Singh Sandhwan also attended the meeting AAP MPs Raghav Chadha ND Gupta and Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel were also present at the meeting in Kejriwals residenceAccording to sources the meeting was called to discuss the next course of action after Kejriwals questioning by the CBI on SundayThe Delhi CM said the central agency will arrest him if the BJP government has given the ordersIn a video message released on Sunday morning Kejriwal said They CBI have called me today and I will definitely go They are very powerful they can send anyone to jail If BJP has ordered CBI to arrest me then CBI will obviously follow their instructionsHe further said You BJP say that I am corrupt I was a Commissioner in the Income Tax department I could have earned crores if I wanted to If Arvind Kejriwal is corrupt then there is no one in this world who is honestIn a major development in the Delhi excise policy case the CBI summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in connection with the liquor policy case on SundayMeanwhile AAP workers staged a protest in the national capital over party chief Kejriwal being summoned by the CBI on Sunday Several AAP workers were detained by Delhi Police at Kashmiri GateFormer Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia a key aide of Kejriwal is in jail over alleged irregularities in the excise caseSisodia was arrested by Enforcement Directorate ED and CBI in the ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy in DelhiThe CBI arrested Sisodia on February 26 Later on March 9 the ED arrested him after hours of questioning at Tihar JailThe ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy undue favours were extended to licence holders the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L1 licence was extended without the competent authoritys approvalThe beneficiaries diverted illegal gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their account books to evade detection the probe agencies saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever