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Arvind Kejriwal Responds to ED Summons in Delhi Excise Policy Case, Ready to Answer Queries After March 12

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Arvind Kejriwal Responds to ED Summons in Delhi Excise Policy Case, Ready to Answer Queries After March 12

A news agency reported on Monday, citing Aam Aadmi Party sources, that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has responded to the Enforcement Directorate’s summons, indicating that he was prepared to respond to its questions via video conference in the now-deleted Delhi excise policy issue after March 12. Arvind Kejriwal has so far refused to respond to the eight Enforcement Directorate summonses, claiming they are unlawful and requesting that the agency hold off while the case is pending in court. According to the sources, Arvind Kejriwal restated that the summonses are “illegal,” but he was prepared to respond to the investigation agency’s inquiries. On March 16, the chief minister of Delhi must also appear before a city court. In a complaint case brought by the investigation agency for not responding to its summonses, the court has requested that he appear in person.

ED summonses Arvind Kejriwal

In a money laundering investigation about anomalies in the Delhi excise policy 2021–22 case, the Enforcement Department (ED) sent Arvind Kejriwal an eighth summons on February 27. The ED requested that he appear in court on March 4. After missing the seventh summons on February 26, the AAP national convenor received a new one. Previous ED summonses from February 26, February 19, February 2, January 18, January 3, November 2, and December 22 have been ignored by Arvind Kejriwal, who has described them as “illegal and politically motivated.”

Why did the ED summon Arvind Kejriwal?

Arvind Kejriwal’s comment on matters like the creation of the excise policy, discussions that took place before its finalization, and accusations of bribery is something that the Enforcement Department (ED) wishes to record. The AAP called the ED’s seventh summons “illegal” in a statement, claiming that the probe agency has already petitioned the court about the subject, thus the ED should cease issuing summonses and await the court’s ruling.

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ED moved the Delhi court against Arvind Kejriwal.

The ED filed a lawsuit against Arvind Kejriwal on February 3, one day after he ignored the fifth summons the agency had given for “non-compliance with the summons.”.

What is the Delhi excise policy case?

The Delhi excise policy lawsuit is based on a formal complaint that was sent to the FBI, alleging some anomalies in the policy’s creation and implementation (2021–2022). Allegations of corruption led to the policy’s revocation. The Enforcement Department (ED) has stated in its sixth charge sheet, which was submitted on December 2, 2023, that the AAP utilized ₹45 crore in bribes obtained through the policy to support its campaign for the Goa assembly elections in 2022. The charge sheet names Sanjay Singh, the leader of the AAP, and his assistant, Sarvesh Mishra. The excise policy aimed to replace a sales-volume-based system with a license charge for dealers and revitalize the city’s failing liquor economy. It promised greater shopping experiences and swankier boutiques. For the first time, the policy offered discounts and promotions on the purchase of alcoholic beverages in Delhi. The strategy was abandoned as a result of Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena’s decision to launch an investigation into purported anomalies in the regime. According to the AAP, Saxena’s predecessor, Anil Baijal, hampered the transition with a few hurried changes that resulted in lower-than-expected revenue.

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“A Commoner Against the Son of a Dynasty in Modi’s New India”: The BJP Invites Yuva Morcha Leader To Face Off Against the Congress

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“A Commoner Against the Son of a Dynasty in Modi’s New India”: The BJP Invites Yuva Morcha Leader To Face Off Against the Congress

Underscoring the “basic requirement for open and dynamic discourse,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pioneer Tejasvi Surya on Monday approached Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi to banter with Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) pioneer for what he portrayed as a battle between “the scion of a political line” and “a plebeian addressing the new India.”

The discussion column in the midst of the Lok Sabha decisions started when Equity (Retd) Madan B Lokur, Equity (Retd) Ajit P Shah, and N Smash wrote to both Rahul Gandhi and State Head Narendra Modi, welcoming them to a stage for a discussion on key political race issues. Rahul praised the drive and communicated the ability for either himself or party boss Mallikarjun Kharge to take part.

‘DEAR RAHUL GANDHI JI… ‘
“Dear Rahul Gandhi Ji, BJYM has deputed Sri @Abhina_Prakash, our VP, to banter with you. He is a youthful and taught pioneer from the Pasi (SC) people group, who are around 30% in Rae Baraeli. It will be an improved discussion between a political scion and a typical youth who has come up the most difficult way possible. Looking forward,” said Surya, the public leader of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

Tolerating the Congress party’s proposition for banter, Surya said that the BJP is prepared to participate in conversations notwithstanding the requesting timetable of the Lok Sabha political race. The BJP pioneer from Karnataka Abhinav Prakash, Public VP of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, was the BJYM’s agent for the impending discussion.

WHO IS ABHINAV PRAKASH?
“He (Abhinav Prakash) hails from Uttar Pradesh, a state you have recently addressed in Parliament. Furthermore, he is from a Dalit station, Pasi, which makes up the critical extent of more than 30% of the planned rank populace in Raebareli. This is the very voting public your family has long addressed and where you are an ongoing constituent competitor,” Surya said. “We enthusiastically expect your acknowledgement, making way for what promises to be a memorable discussion between the scion of a political tradition that has controlled India for a very long time since freedom and a plebeian addressing the new India of State leader Shri Narendra Modi Ji,” he added.

After Gandhi acknowledged the welcome for banter last week, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday that PM Modi has not yet “marshalled the boldness” to acknowledge the greeting for a discussion on “Day 1 of Rahul Gandhi’s letter tolerating an encouragement to discuss the state leader. The 56-inch chest has not yet marshalled the mental fortitude to acknowledge the welcome,” Ramesh said in a post on X. He likewise called t” the meetings being given by the state leader.

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Gandhi on Saturday acknowledged an encouragement to banter with Modi and, furthermore, said the country anticipates that the head of state should partake in it. Considering Modi an “active PM,”  Ramesh additionally asserted that meetings being given by him to papers and television stations were “arranged.” “The active PM’s ‘interviews’—to p papers and stations—are a finished sham that the nation is being exposed to nowadays. Each little detail is coordinated and overseen by him. There isn’t one thing normal or unconstrained about them aside from his untruths and showy behaviours,” Ramesh said. “There is no cross-addressing and no endeavour to draw him into a discussion. It is all pre-arranged. There has been no other political forerunner in India, current or past, who has managed the media as such,” he said.

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Arvind Kejriwal To AAP Workers: “Phir Dekho Kab Milenge” Should INDIA Bloc Lose Lok Sabha Elections

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Arvind Kejriwal To AAP Workers: “Phir Dekho Kab Milenge” Should INDIA Bloc Lose Lok Sabha Elections

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that he would escape prison on June 5, assuming the India alliance arose successful in the following Lok Sabha races.

The AAP pioneer, who got out on break on May 10 regarding the now-rejected Delhi alcohol strategy case, said on the off chance that the INDIA coalition loses the political race, he doesn’t have any idea when he will get out.

“I need to get back to prison on June 2. I will watch the outcomes from prison. I will watch the outcomes on the fourth from prison. If India Gahthbandhan wins, I will be out on the fifth. If not, phir dekho kab milenge (I don’t have the foggiest idea when we will meet straightaway),” Kejriwal said while tending to AAP councilors after the gathering.

The AAP pioneer affirmed that the BJP needs to squash his party as they are frightened of the work done by his administration in Delhi and Punjab.

He likewise claimed he didn’t get insulin for 15 days at Tihar prison, adding that he has been a diabetes patient for a very long time.

KEJRIWAL’S 10 Certifications Assuming that the India Coalition Cast a Ballot to Power
Free power, schooling and wellbeing, two crore occupations in the following year, and giving full autonomy to the Indian Armed Forces to recover India’s territory as of now involved by China were among the ten commitments made by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boss Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday, who additionally said that he would ensure these “ensures” are carried out when the INDIA coalition is cast a ballot to control after the Lok Sabha decisions.

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In a public interview at the AAP central command in the city, Kejriwal emphasized his commitment to full statehood in Delhi and furthermore said the Agniveer plan will be rejected in the event that the resistance union arises triumphant.

Featuring the case of the AAP government’s work in Delhi and Punjab, Kejriwal said, “Government schools will give preferred training over tuition-based schools. We have done it in Delhi and Punjab. Rs 5 lakh crores will be expected for this. State legislatures will give Rs 2.5 lakh crores, and the focal government will give Rs 2.5 crore for this.”

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India’s Varanasi Is Abundant with Saffron for Narendra Modi Flowing With Ideas During The Lok Sabha Election

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India’s Varanasi Is Abundant with Saffron for Narendra Modi Flowing With Ideas During The Lok Sabha Election

In the Lok Sabha appointment of 2024, the blessed city of Kashi stands drenched in the political tint of saffron while the resistance calls it quits with not many plans to sell and, surprisingly, a lesser hunger for weighty analyses against the immense appearance of Modi enchantment. As Varanasi gears up for surveying day on June 1, here’s a summary of the changed political elements in this voting public.

A Super Triumph On The Cards
Varanasi is hued in saffron over this political decision, as it has been in the previous ten years since the BJP’s prime pastoral up-and-comer Narendra Modi chose to challenge for the seat in 2014. It is to be noticed that Varanasi has been a BJP stronghold since around 1991, with the Congress having penetrated it just once in 2004. Yet, the size of the BJP’s exhibition developed dramatically with the state leader venturing into the conflict.

In the 2019 races, state head Modi held the seat with a lead of 4.8 lakh votes in 2019, up from 3.7 lakh votes in 2014, perhaps having the greatest winning edge in the country. In 2024, with the top state leader on the polling form once again, a comparative uber triumph is on the cards in what will be an uneven political race, and the main inquiry on citizens’ psyches would be the edge of Modi’s success. With Modi headed towards a full go-around in Varanasi, the BJP is crusading on the motto ‘Abki Baar, 10 Lakh Paar’ and approaching the electorate to take Modi’s complete vote offer to 10 lakh votes, compared with 6.75 lakh votes, or 63% of the all-out vote in 2019.

As far as improvement, Varanasi has gone through an ocean change with the Kashi Vishwanath passageway, the development of ring streets, the upgrade of street and scaffold organizations, the foundation of a disease clinic, and a cricket arena. The emphasis on neatness, particularly in Kashi, has won hearts across the voting public. In addition, the expulsion of the above power links has upgraded the city’s stylish allure, prompting work on everyday environments and security norms.

The entrance of focal government and state government plans in this voting demographic is likewise at its ideal. Lakhs have gotten benefits under the PM Awas Yojana, Ayushman Bharat Plan, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, etc. Availability has improved, and many might say that Varanasi has been placed on the guide of the country, with Vande Bharat rail associations, flights, and freeways focusing on this recently ignored seat.

The impacts of these progressions have been felt across the Purvanchal district, which is an additional lift for the by and large good feeling for PM Modi. Additionally, vacationers have run in from around the nation and the world to observe this revival of this old city and its antiquated legacy.

It has been guaranteed that improvement will happen in Varanasi as one coordinated effort with its otherworldly angles, which further draws citizens towards the BJP. It is in PM Modi’s strict and profound persona that most Hindu electors in Varanasi see their optimal delegate. It’s likewise a far-reaching conviction that Varanasi could never have seen such a quick-moving turn of events and the rebuilding of old brilliance had it not been for PM Modi’s own advantage among the supporters.

Aside from visiting the seat multiple times since assuming control, one huge perception noted here is that the Head of State has conveyed a large number of civil servants to perform obligations pertinent to his office, entrusted to keep up with interchanges with general society and tackle their concerns at their solicitation. Further, the Yogi Adityanath-drove state government and the BJP’s four MLAs in the electorate, which has five gathering sections, additionally support the head of the state’s situation. The commitment of the two-fold motor government has changed the political scene in Varanasi.

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As a matter of fact, the connection between Modi and Varanasi’s electorate is intense to the point that a striking opinion among citizens here is that the state head need not even appear for a political mission to enrol in a triumph. He appreciates the huge prevalence of rising above standing lines and has even earned profound respect from individuals from the neighbourhood Muslim people group, particularly the more unfortunate segments, who have gotten a scope of government benefits.

Eventually, the BJP is positive about its possibilities here and is completely ready for a Modi-drove roadshow paving the way to surveying day, which might be adequate for getting a reverberating triumph.

POLITICAL Breezes from Ayodhya
Varanasi is additionally profoundly impacted by the change seen in the strict, political, and infrastructural forms of Ayodhya. The quick development of the Slam Mandir and the fabulous Pran Pratishtha service have enthused citizens who owe a feeling of satisfaction to the BJP’s contribution to the Smash Mandir development and the head of the state’s very own stake in improvements.

Yet these occasions have worked up trusts with respect to the Gyanvapi Masjid question, which has proactively been shipped off the court and is supposed to be addressed capably for Hindu inquirers. Enthusiasts believe that under the ongoing administration, there will be no altering or obstruction in the examinations requested by the court. In addition, they likewise believe that the procedures will advance calmly without public pressure spilling into the roads under the watch of the Modi-Yogi two-fold motor government.

Resistance to thoughts
Assuming the joined resistance doesn’t mess around with its contention with PM Modi, one would anticipate that they should set up an impressive front on his turf; however, that isn’t the case up to this point. While allies are excited about turning up on surveying day to show their support of the state leader’s exhibition up to this point, there are very few pundits of the work done even in the resistance camps. All things considered, their governmental issues depend on strict polarization and issues of joblessness and expansion.

The essential resistance to PM Modi here is presented by the INDIA coalition up-and-comer Ajay Rai. Rai, as of now the head of the Uttar Pradesh Congress, has recently battled two times in the Lok Sabha surveys against the PM, scoring a vote portion of 14.38% in 2019. In coalition with the Samajwadi party, which scored 18.4% of the vote that very year, Rai can anticipate a perceptible lift, but with provisos. In 2019, SP competitor Shalini Yadav profited from the coalition with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which isn’t in the India alliance this time. The BSP has, truth be told, handled a Muslim competitor, Syyed Niyaz Ali, who will additionally seek the INDIA coalition’s centre vote bank. With the BSP challenging freely and an absence of a combination of Muslim and Yadav votes, there is no impressive potential in the INDIA coalition’s exhibition, inferable from which it appears to have previously called it quits to the extent that its survey technique goes.

Rai accompanies a fascinating political history. His process began as a ‘karyakarta’ of the Hindu patriot outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), following which he expected the job of convener of the BJP’s understudy wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Rai, a five-time MLA, in this manner tied down political decisions to the UP Gathering multiple times on a BJP ticket—in 1996, 2002, and 2007, addressing the Kolasla voting public in Varanasi. His takeoff from the saffron camp came subsequent to being denied a Lok Sabha ticket in 2009. Rai tried to challenge the political race from Varanasi; nonetheless, when senior BJP pioneer Murli Manohar Joshi was given the ticket, Rai left the party. He then, at that point, challenged Varanasi on a Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket, which was ineffective. Rai joined the Congress in 2012 and won the recently framed Pindra seat in Varanasi, before at long last being set in opposition to Modi from the Lok Sabha seat.

Already, when the excellent union of gatherings was shaping up, Shiv Sena (UT group) pioneer Sanjay Raut had pondered whether Priyanka Gandhi would win the political race from Varanasi, assuming she chose to challenge. In any case, while this thought ignited the creative mind of the neighbourhood Congress unit, no such choice emerged, as the party picked a non-exploratory methodology, showing no tendency to emblematically challenge the state leader.

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The representative methodology might have kicked the bucket with the experience of Arvind Kejriwal in 2014, who scored 20.34% of the vote at the pinnacle of his prevalence, bearing no counterpart for Modi’s avalanche triumph.

With regards to the resistance’s mission, Ajay Rai thinks of himself as detached, with insignificant help from public pioneers to set up a strong front against Modi. Varanasi is yet to see a searing Rahul Gandhi or Akhilesh Yadav-drove crusade rally. In such conditions, Rai has been pushing the ‘transient’ and ‘pariah’ stories, attesting that the Ganga-Jamuni culture of Kashi would be saved just when his immense opponent is shown the entryway by the electorate.

In January, Congress raked up an instance of attack purportedly because of BJP IT-cell office carriers to challenge the party authority and request a statement of regret from the state head himself. Joining the fights, Congress labourers conflicted with the police but were halted from arriving at their objective. At last, the issue burned out prior to taking up a political structure.

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Stage for Exposure
Besides, as far as political resistance, the electorate is to a great extent seen as a high-profile pass to popularity for those looking for exposure and acknowledgement. Up-and-comers have run in to record their designations. The most striking names who have stood out as truly newsworthy for the sheer whimsy of their choice to join the survey conflict incorporate jokester Shyam Rangeela, who has added another aspect to reflecting the state leader after he tracked down a name occupied with copying him. Another name is Nirmohi Akhara’s Himangi Sakhi from the transsexual local area, who looks to cause the government to notice the freedoms of transsexuals. She has let the media know that she regards and appreciates the top state leader, yet she wishes to challenge and feature the issues of the Kinnar people group.

All things considered, with under three weeks to go before the polls.

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