Kejriwal ducks ED againSkips 3rd summonsin Excise Policy case

 

 

 

DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday skipped for the third time the summons issued by the ED in the Delhi Excise Policy case with the AAP alleging that the repeated notices were part of a conspiracy to arrest him to stop him from campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls. Kejriwal was summoned on Wednesday for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an Excise Policy-linked money laundering case.

 

This was the third ED notice to Kejriwal, also the AAP’s convener,after he refused to appear before the federal agency on two earlier summonses for November 2 and December 21.The BJP claimed Kejriwal did not want the truth to come out. The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP),however,asserted that Kejriwal was ready to cooperate with the agency but claimed that the summonses were sent with the intention of arresting him. “Why has the notice been sent right before elections? The notice is an attempt to stop Kejriwal from campaigning in elections,” the partyalleged.AAPleaderand Delhi minister Atishi called the summons a “political” vendett a and said the ED has not responded to Kejriwal’s repeated written requests seeking clarity on why he was beingcalledfor questioning.

 

“Arvind Kejriwal has repeatedly asked the ED to tell in what capacity is he being summoned.He has also asked the ED to send all the concerned inquiries in the form of a questionnaire whichwill be answered duly,” she said, adding that the AAP is not afraid of “such summons”. “The ED and the CBI have become a political tool for the BJP to attack the Opposition leaders,” she said. Delhi BJP chiefVirendra Sachdeva said the way in which Kejriwal is skipping summons, it shows that he has no faith in the country’s legal system.