CM Arvind Kejriwal: Government, Centre locked in ‘holy war’

The AAP government and the BJP-ruled Centre are locked in a “holy war”, like the “Kauravas and Pandavas”, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday, while daring Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stall the development of Delhi.

On a day Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan became the 11th AAP legislator to be arrested by the Delhi police, a furious Kejriwal lashed out at Mr Modi for “unleashing” probe agencies like the CBI and ED after his party legislators.

“He (Mr Modi) could not digest his defeat. They have put all the agencies behind us but could not unearth a single act of corruption. It’s a holy war akin to the war between Kauravas and Pandavas,” Mr Kejriwal said after inaugurating the 3.40 km elevated corridor between Vikaspuri and Meerabagh here.

The AAP chief warned the Prime Minister that if he “does not stop putting spanners”, then BJP will meet the same fate in Punjab, Goa and Gujarat “like it did in Delhi where its strength got restricted to three MLAs”.

“Nripendra Mishra monitors all the files but has failed to find corruption. In the BRT corridor case, the BJP even alleged that I pocketed '15 crore, but failed to prove anything in this regard. I challenged Modiji to stop the development of Delhi. I challenge Narendra Modi to stop our reforms being brought about by our education minister Manish Sisodia,” he said.