Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Shanta Kumar has thrown his support behind Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia, who was granted bail after spending 17 months in jail last week.
Kumar’s comments contradict his party’s stance, the BJP, on attacking AAP leaders, including Manish Sisodiaon the case of Delhi’s liquor policy.
“Readers will be stunned and many of my friends will be upset, but I want to say openly that I sympathize with Manish Sisodia, who has been released on bail by the Supreme Court “After 17 months, I am very excited about his release,” Kumar, 89, said in a press statement, according to a report by India Today.
Sisodia, a former deputy chief minister of Delhi, walked out of Tihar Jail on August 9, after 17 months after the Supreme Court granted him bail. money laundering cases linked to the Delhi excise policy scam case.
A court of judges BR Gavai and KV ViswanathanOn August 6, the Supreme Court, which reserved its judgment, disagreed with the findings of the trial court and the High Court that the delay in the trial was attributable to Sisodia. The top court said it would be a “travesty of justice” to relegate him to the trial court for seeking bail in such cases.
Kumar said in his statement, quoted by India Today, that the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP originated after Anna Hazare He launched an anti-corruption campaign, eventually winning 67 of the 70 seats in the first election and forming an honest government. He said AAP repeated its stance in the Delhi government in 2020.
“Re-electing the government under the nose of the BJP-led Union government proved that the party has earned the trust of voters in New Delhi by doing a good job,” Shanta Kumar said. AAP and BJP are rivals in Delhi.
Kumar, a veteran BJP leader, has served as the third Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and a Union Minister in the Union. He was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from the Kangra constituency in 1989 and re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999 and 2014 from the same constituency.
The AAP said that Supreme Court grants bail to Manish SisodiaIt is a “harsh slap” to the “dictatorship” of the BJP-led Centre, but regretted that the relief came after a year’s delay and hoped that its other jailed leaders, including supremo Arvind Kejriwal, would also get justice.
On February 26 last year, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sisodia for alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the now-discontinued Delhi excise policy for 2021-22. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal He is behind bars for the same case.
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