AAP protest against action of ED, CBI

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party workers held a demonstration on the DDU Marg here on Tuesday to protest the action of ED and CBI against its leaders.

The protest took place hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s residence here as part of a money-laundering investigation against him and some others. Several protesters were detained by the police as they tried to march from the AAP office to the BJP headquarters on DDU Marg.

Former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh are currently in jail in a money-laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the implementation of the now-scrapped excise policy. AAP leaders, including Kejriwal, have strongly denied the allegations and claimed that the cases registered by probe agencies are false. Activists of the BJP’s Yuva Morcha on Tuesday held demonstrations at multiple locations in Delhi under a campaign against alleged corruption of the Arvind Kejriwal government.

The protesters assembled at major intersections and other prominent locations with placards bearing slogans against the AAP government’s alleged corruption, including the “liquor scam”. Virendra Sachdeva, the BJP’s Delhi unit chief, attended a demonstration at ITO and said the real face of AAP and Kejriwal has been “exposed”.

Citing an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s residence early on Tuesday, Sachdeva said, “AAP is a family of the corrupt and Kejriwal will also go to jail like other leaders of his party.” The ED raided the premises of the AAP’s Okhla MLA as part of a money-laundering investigation against him and some others, official sources said.