‘AAP is a thought, PM Modi cannot finish us’: Kejriwal

Mr. Kejriwal further claimed that if the BJP wins the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee, M.K. Stalin, Uddhav Thackeray will be sent to jail.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently out on an interim bail in a money laundering case till June 1, launched a scathing attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 11, asserting that the INDIA bloc will form the next government and the AAP will be part of it at Centre.

Addressing his first press conference since his release on May 10, Mr. Kejriwal said, “Friends, I am coming straight from jail between you guys after 50 days in Tihar. I had no hope that I will come out of jail in between elections. This is the blessings of lord Hanuman.”

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He alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “left no stone unturned to crush our party” and send four top AAP leaders to jail in a year.

“The Aam Aadmi Party is a small party, we are in power in two States and the PM is determined to finish our party. Together, they sent four top leaders of our to jail - myself, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Satyendra Jain. They thought this will finish us but the truth is that we are not just a party but a thought,” Mr. Kejriwal added.

Mr. Kejriwal claimed Prime Minister Modi believes that AAP is the country’s future. “Anyone who goes to meet the PM tells us that for first 15 mins of the meeting, they talk about AAP and how it will lead the country on they future. That’s why they are scared of us. If they work hard for the development of this nation, no one will ask about AAP but they don’t do that,” he said.

“The PM says that he is fighting against corruption but all the corrupt people join the BJP and the party accepts them. If PM wants to learn about fighting corruption, he should learn from Arvind Kejriwal, we sent corrupt to jail,” said the AAP chief.