Claiming that the BJP-led government at the Centre does not want to upset PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti by arresting the “real traitors” in the JNU case, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is facing
Claiming that the BJP-led government at the Centre does not want to upset PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti by arresting the “real traitors” in the JNU case, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is facing sedition charge, on Monday said he is a “bigger patriot” than Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“I have been booked for sedition. I have been raising voice in favour (of) Dalits, the backwards (pichchdon) and the poor, which is why I am an anti-national for them (the BJP). My voice cannot be muzzled. I will continue to fight for them,” Mr Kejriwal said in a series of tweets.
Mr Kejriwal claimed that those who raised anti-India slogans at the university campus were from Kashmir.
“I am a bigger patriot than Modiji. I ask why he has not yet arrested those who had raised slogans for the destruction of the country... because those who raised such slogans are from Kashmir and if they are arrested, Mehbooba Mufti will get angry.”
“Our soldiers are being martyred everyday on the border. And Modiji is saving the anti-national elements to form government in Kashmir,” Mr Kejriwal said, referring to the ongoing talks between the BJP and the PDP to form government in Jammu and Kashmir following the death of chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
Mr Kejriwal, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury are among nine persons who have been booked on sedition charges by the Hyderabad police.
An FIR has been registered against Mr Gandhi, Mr Kejriwal, Mr Yechury, Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Ajay Maken, CPI leader D. Raja, JD(U) spokesperson K.C. Tyagi, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and JNU research scholar Umar Khalid on the order of a court based on a complaint filed by lawyer Janardhan Goud on Sunday.
