New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday slammed the Centre for the arrest of his Health Minister, Satyendar Jain by the Enforcement Directorate, saying the case is “completely fake and politically motivated”.
Referring to the recent Punjab minister sacking incident, Mr Kejriwal said “You saw in Punjab there was an audio recording of a state minister that no probe agency or opposition party had any idea about. We could have suppressed it if we wanted but we initiated action against him on our own and got him arrested,”
He further recalled an incident which took place five years ago, when he sacked his food supplies minister and said “We don’t wait for investigating agencies, we take action ourselves,”
I have studied the case against Mr Jain. It is completely fake and he is intentionally being implicated for political reasons. We have faith in the judiciary. Mr Jain is following the path of truth, and he will come out clean,” the Chief Minister said while interacting with the media during an inspection of a road development programme of his government.
Mr Jain was arrested by the ED in a case of money laundering on Monday.
In January, ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls, Mr Kejriwal had claimed he had learnt from sources that Mr Jain could be arrested by the ED.
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