Delhi liquor scam: Anna Hazare writes explosive letter to Arvind Kejriwal, calls him ‘POWER DRUNK’
Social activist Anna Hazare has written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, expressing his disappointment and labelling him “power drunk.”
In the midst of a controversy over the Delhi liquor scam, anti-corruption crusader and social activist Anna Hazare has written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, expressing his disappointment and labelling him “power drunk.” In a letter to Kejriwal, who accompanied him during the India Against Corruption movement in 2012, Hazare stated that the Aam Aadmi Party, which arose from the anti-corruption movement, has also begun “following the path of other parties.”
“10 years ago on 18 September 2012, all the members of Team Anna had a meeting in Delhi. At that time, AAP had talked about adopting the political path. But you forgot that forming a political party was not the aim of our movement. At that time there was a belief in the public’s mind about Team Anna,” the noted Gandhian activist said in the read.
“Just as there is an intoxication of alcohol, in the same way, there is an intoxication of power. You too have drowned in the intoxication of such power,” he added.
Anna Hazare writes to Delhi CM Kejriwal over New Liquor Policy
"Had expected a similar policy(like Maharashtra's). But you didn't do it.People seem to be trapped in a circle of money for power&power for money. It doesn't suit a party that emerged from a major movement,"he writes pic.twitter.com/4yTvc0XI5K
— ANI (@ANI) August 30, 2022
CBI officials search Sisodia’s bank locker
Hazare’s explosive letter to Kejriwal, a former close aide, came on the same day that the CBI raided Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s locker in connection with the liquor scam investigation.
The search was carried out by a team of about five Central Bureau of Investigation officials who arrived at the PNB branch in Sector 4 Vasundhara in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of the national capital. Sisodia and his wife were at the bank.
The leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is one of 15 people and entities named in a FIR filed by the agency in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Delhi government’s Excise Policy 2021-22.
On August 19, the federal investigation agency raided 31 locations, including Sisodia’s home. Sisodia has claimed that he was falsely charged in order to halt the march of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has emerged as an alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
During a special session of the Delhi Assembly on Friday, the AAP leader claimed that the BJP-led Centre is behaving like a serial killer in order to eliminate state governments, and he called the CBI FIR against him “fake” and based on “mere sources.”
