‘We are not scared of BJP’: AAP’s Atishi alleges BJP ‘plotting’ arrests of key members ahead of LS polls

April 2, 2024

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Minister Atishi on Tuesday alleged that she was approached by the Bharatiya Janata Party to join them or else she’d be arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the coming days.

While addressing a press conference here, the AAP leader said, “The BJP, through one of my close aides, approached me to join their party to save my political career, and if I do not join the BJP, then in the coming month, I will be arrested by the ED.”

The AAP leader accused the BJP-led Centre of trying to threaten the party by using probe agencies. “I want to tell the BJP that we will not be scared of you. We are the soldiers of Arvind Kejriwal. We are aides of Bhagat Singh. We will continue to save the Constitution and will work to give the people a better life under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal,” she said.

She further alleged that in the coming two months before the general elections, a few more leaders, including Raghav Chadha and Saurabh Bharadwaj, will be arrested by the central probe agency.

“The BJP and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are targeting senior AAP leaders as they have realised the party will not break despite CM Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest. In the coming two months before the Lok Sabha elections, they will arrest 4 more AAP leaders: Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak, Raghav Chadha and me,” Atishi alleged.

When asked about the ED’s statement mentioning her and Saurabh Bharadwaj’s names in court, the AAP leader said, “The ED took Saurabh Bharadwaj and my name in court, on the basis of a statement that is available with the ED and CBI for one and a half years; this statement is in the charge sheet of the ED. This statement is also in the charge sheets of CBI, so what was the reason for raising this statement? The reason for raising this statement was that now the BJP feels that despite Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, and Satyendra Jain being in jail, the Aam Aadmi Party is still united and strong. Now they are planning to put the next line of leadership of the Aam Aadmi Party in jail.”

Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate apprised the court on Monday that during the recording of a statement in custody, Arvind Kejriwal stated that his interaction with former communication-in-charge of the AAP, Vijay Nair, was limited as he only reported to party leaders Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj.