Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Thursday, has refused to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED), India’s financial crimes agency for questioning in an alleged corruption case. Kejriwal in a letter stated that the ED summon was “vague and motivated, and unsustainable in law”.

The Aam Admi official page on X also stated that the ‘ED’s notice is politically motivated, BJP has sent the notice. Illegal notice has been sent to Kejriwal with the intention of stopping him from campaigning in four states.’ It further stated that the ED should immediately withdraw the notice sent by BJP

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating a case related to a now-scrapped liquor policy in the state.

“The said summons appear to be motivated and issued for extraneous considerations. Simultaneous to the summons, in the afternoon of 30.10.2023, BJP leaders started making statements that soon I would be summoned and arrested. By the evening of that day, I received your summons. It is thus apparent that the said summons was leaked to select BJP leaders to malign my image and reputation and has been issued at the behest of the ruling party at the Centre,” stated Kejriwal in the letter.

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Kejriwal also stated that the summon does not specify whether he has been summoned as an individual or in his official capacity as Chief Minister of Delhi or as National Convenor of AAP and “appears to be in the nature of a fishing and roving inquiry.”

Being the National Convenor and a star campaigner of the Aam Aadmi Party which is contesting elections, the Delhi Chief Minister stated that he is required to travel for campaigning and to provide political guidance to his field workers of Aam Aadmi Party, besides is governance and official commitments as the CM of Delhi.

AAP leader Raghav Chadha has also stated on Wednesday that the BJP’s ED-CBI filed cases against 125 big leaders in 2014-2022 out of which 118 were opposition leaders.

Cases filed against all the big leaders includes Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Sanjay Raut. “According to our strong intelligence sources, they will file cases against all the big opposition leaders before the elections so that they keep visiting the investigating agencies instead of campaigning,” claimed Chadha.