New Delhi: Hours after being discharged in the Delhi excise policy case, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal said his acquittal had exposed a ‘politically motivated prosecution’.
Throwing down the gauntlet, the former Delhi chief minister dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to call fresh Assembly elections in the national Capital and vowed to quit politics if the saffron party wins more than 10 seats.
“I challenge Modi ji. If you have the courage, hold elections in Delhi again. If you get more than ten seats, I will quit politics. The people of Delhi are fed up with you people,” Kejriwal said at a press conference.
Kejriwal turned emotional after the Rouse Avenue court
cleared him, former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, BRS leader K Kavitha and 20 others in the Delhi liquor policy case.
The special court criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), saying that the prosecution had failed to back its claims with credible evidence.
Kejriwal said the nearly 600-page order found “not even a shred of evidence to even prosecute this case”.
“The court had to decide whether there was sufficient material to prosecute… If there was any substance in this, the trial would go on for fifteen or twenty years… The court said it was a frivolous case, so fake, so useless, so wrong. I’m not saying this. These are the court’s words,” Kejriwal told newspersons.
He launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing them of orchestrating a conspiracy to remove AAP from power in Delhi.
“This entire conspiracy was hatched by two people – Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, and today they should both apologise to the entire nation. They conspired together to destroy the Aam Aadmi Party,” Kejriwal claimed.