Amritsar, May 16: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged people to vote for AAP if they don’t want him to return to jail.
Holding a roadshow in Punjab’s Amritsar for the party’s candidate Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, the AAP supremo also claimed that the BJP will end reservation for SC, ST and OBC if it gets a majority in the Lok Sabha.
Referring to the BJP, Kejriwal said saffron party leaders are saying he will have to go to jail after 20 days.
“Whether I go (back) to jail or not depends upon you. If you press the ‘jhadoo’ (AAP’s election symbol) button, I will not need to go to jail,” Kejriwal said.
“While pressing the button, remember if you are pressing the button for Kejriwal’s freedom or for sending Kejriwal (back) to jail,” the AAP chief said. “When you press the ‘jhadoo (broom)’ button, remember that you are pressing it to save the Constitution and the country.”
A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta on Thursday refused to consider claims and counter claims by advocates for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Kejriwal on statements related to the grant of interim bail to the AAP chief.
Appearing for the ED, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta objected to Kejriwal’s speeches in poll rallies that if people vote for AAP, he will not have to go back to prison on June 2.
On May 10, the apex court granted Kejriwal interim bail till June 1, the last day of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, and directed him to surrender and go back to jail on June 2.
The Delhi chief minister was arrested on March 21.
Referring to the BJP’s “400 paar” slogan, Kejriwal said, “We asked why they need 400 seats. They said (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji wants to do many big works.”
“We found out that Modi ji wants to end reservation, which was given by Babasaheb Ambedkar,” he alleged.
