The BJP plans to arrest me, she says…
On Tuesday, 02 April 2024, Delhi Minister Atishi alleged that four more senior leaders of the AAP are set to be arrested over the next two months.
She accused the BJP of using central agencies in its attempt to crush AAP.
The ruling party plans to arrest her, Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, AAP MP Raghav Chadha, and party MLA Durgesh Pathak.
"The BJP has approached me through someone closest. They have asked me to join the BJP and said this is the only way to save my career. They have threatened that if I don't switch over, ED will arrest me within a month," she told the media.
She said the person who approached her on behalf of the BJP had said that the ruling party had "made up its mind on crushing everyone in the AAP".
"First, they put everyone in the AAP's leadership in jail. Satyendra Jain, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and now CM Arvind Kejriwal have been arrested.
The BJP plans to arrest four more AAP leaders in the next two months. They will arrest me, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak, and Raghav Chadha," she said.
The BJP, Ms. Atishi said, had thought that the party would splinter after Arvind Kejriwal's arrest. "But after the rally in Ramlila Maidan which was on Sunday, the BJP thinks the arrest of four leaders was not enough for them," she said.
Edited By: Arusha Farooq
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