Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday welcomed the court’s decision to discharge former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case, calling it a victory for truth over false claims. He targeted the BJP, saying their supporters should feel ashamed.
Reacting to the development in an X post, Yadav wrote: “Today, in Delhi, both truth and justice stand alongside the esteemed former Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal ji. No accusation can ever be so grand that it shrouds the truth. Every honest soul will breathe a sigh of hopeful relief, while BJP supporters must be writhing in deep shame and profound self-reproach. The BJP has betrayed the residents of Delhi.”
Yadav also criticized certain religious leaders for misusing their roles. “
Those duplicitous, so-called devout Hindu Shankaracharya ji, sadhus, saints, and ascetics — who commit the grievous sin of levelling false charges even against them — how far might they go to defame any government, party, or individual? No decent person could even imagine it,” he added.
He linked it to history, alleging BJP’s ideological ancestors betrayed freedom fighters. “Before independence, those ‘comrades-in-arms’ of the current powers-that-be who colluded with the nation’s enemies, who worked as informants against the freedom fighters — dragging them to the gallows — and who, in their underground roles as apologists for the imperialists bent on enslaving the country, played their parts through deceit and subterfuge: those cunning ideologues of the BJP have no face left to show anyone today. For the BJP, this news is nothing short of a ‘moral death sentence’.”
Earlier, Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi discharged Kejriwal, former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in the Delhi Excise Policy case. It refused to accept the CBI charge sheet, finding no proof of a central conspiracy.
CBI said it will move the Delhi High Court against the lower court ruling.