"Freedom Fighters Would Not Have Dreamt...": AAP's Atishi On Arvind Kejriwal
NDTV
The Delhi chief minister was arrested in an alleged scam related to the now-scrapped liquor policy on March 21.
Issuing a reminder on Independence Day that Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is in jail, state minister Atishi and Mr Kejriwal's wife, Sunita, have hit out at the Centre and said people of the country should make their voices heard.
Ms Atishi, who holds the education portfolio among others, had been nominated by Mr Kejriwal to unfurl the Tricolour during the Delhi government's Independence Day celebrations. The decision was however overruled by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, who termed it "invalid" and said minister Kailash Gahlot would do so because he is in charge of the Home Department.
Taking to X on Thursday, Ms Atishi posted a photo of Mr Kejriwal waving the Tricolour and wrote in Hindi, "Today is Independence Day, when India got freedom from British dictatorship in 1947. Hundreds of freedom fighters faced lathicharge, went to jail and sacrificed their lives to get us this freedom. They would not have even dreamt that one day, in Independent India, an elected chief minister would be framed in a false case and kept in jail for months..."
