Sibal Slams Centre Over CBI Summoning Kejriwal, Says BJP Wants “Opposition-Free” India

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal slammed the BJP over the CBI summoning Delhi Chief Minister Arvind, alleging that the ruling party wants to establish an “Opposition-free India” and is seeking to “malign” the image of leaders who stand up against it.

Sibal urges opposition to unite against Centre

The MP has urged all Opposition parties to speak up in one voice against this “misuse” of probe agencies and asserted that it will be difficult to take on the BJP until all such parties stand together.

“They (the BJP) want an Opposition-free India and are targeting all Opposition leaders. We’ve seen how they have targeted Opposition chief ministers of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and other leaders,” he said in a statement.

He also alleged that the BJP has misused provisions of the Tenth Schedule to topple elected governments.

The BJP wants to “malign” the image of Opposition leaders and is “misusing” the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate for it, he alleged. Further, he said that is why the ruling party knows how many seats they will get in advance.

Sibal said he had predicted the action against Kejriwal as he was taking on the government and it was in line with the targeting of other Opposition leaders.

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CBI summoned Delhi CM

On Friday, the CBI summoned Kejriwal to appear before it on April 16 in connection with the excise policy scam case in which his former deputy Manish Sisodia was arrested last month.

Reacting to this, Sibat took to Twitter, “CBI summons Kejriwal, BJP says: Law on course. My take: Persecution on the course!”

According to the notice issued by the CBI, the Aam Aadmi Party’s chief has been called to appear at the agency headquarters at 11 am on Sunday to answer queries of the investigating team as a witness in the case, officials said. called it a conspiracy and confirmed that Kejriwal will appear before the agency on Sunday.

The BJP intensified its attack on AAP convenor Kejriwal, accusing him of being the “mastermind” of the alleged liquor policy scam as the CBI summoned him for questioning.