Arvind Kejriwal
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Arvind Kejriwal will now have to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Rouse Avenue Court has directed Arvind Kejriwal, who has ignored ED notices five times, to appear before the investigating agency. After ignoring the ED notice five times, the agency had moved the court, hearing which the court directed Kejriwal to appear before the agency on February 17. Just before the Lok Sabha elections, now Arvind Kejriwal will have to answer the agency’s questions in the liquor scam.
ED’s investigation on solid grounds- BJP
BJP may try to make it an election issue. It can have an impact in Delhi as well as Punjab. As soon as the court’s instructions came out, BJP has said that now all the options for avoiding investigation have been exhausted before Arvind Kejriwal. Now he will have to tell the truth of the liquor scam to the court and the public. BJP has also said that the court has ordered them to appear before the ED, accepting the same grounds as true on which the Aam Aadmi Party had been calling the ED investigation politically motivated. This proves that the ED investigation is being conducted on solid grounds.
your allegations
The Aam Aadmi Party has been continuously alleging that the Enforcement Directorate’s investigation into the liquor scam is politically motivated. He says that efforts are being made to implicate Arvind Kejriwal at the behest of BJP to stop him from election campaign. The party has also described the liquor scam as a complete bundle of lies. However, Aam Aadmi Party says that it will challenge this order of Rouse Avenue court in the sessions court.