Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Friday said Arvind Kejriwal should resign as Delhi Chief Minister following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the now-scrapped liquor policy case and wondered why the AAP chief was still ‘clinging’ to the post.
Sanjay Nirupam took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and wrote, "The court has to decide what is the truth of Delhi’s liquor scam. But a Chief Minister has been accused of corruption in this scam. He has been arrested. He is in custody and is still clinging to the post of Chief Minister. What kind of morality is this? He should immediately resign from his post".
Arvind Kejriwal was sent to six-day Enforcement Directorate custody on Friday, a day after he was arrested by the probe agency from his residence in New Delhi in connection with the liquor policy-linked money laundering case.
"In Indian politics, a party which is just 11 years old is setting an example of politics becoming completely unethical," Sanjay Nirupam added.
The Congress leader said that although he sympathises with the Aam Aadmi Party chief, but he was ‘forced’ to write the post due to the "new definition of morality" written by Arind Kejriwal.
Further in his post, Nirupam cited examples of how leaders like Lal Krishna Advani from the BJP and Madhavrao Scindia and Kamal Nath from the Congress had resigned from their posts on "grounds of morality" after their names figured out in a diary linked to the Hawala scam case. Sanjay Nirupam further said that even Lal Bahadur Shastri had resigned over a train accident.
"Recently, when they (the AAP) were showing the spectacle of India Against Corruption to the whole country, the ministers of the then UPA government resigned from their posts even on the slightest allegations of corruption," he said, adding that recently, Hemant Soren resigned as Jharkhand Chief Minister before being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a land scam.
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