Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal told the party members to be prepared to go to jail if the need arises and those who are scared of it should quit the party. His statement comes after Election Commission (EC) recognized AAP as a national party.

Addressing the party workers in Delhi today, the AAP convenor thanked all those who contributed to the party’s growth and helped it achieve national party status. He also remembered his party colleagues Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain who are currently lodged in jail.

He further said anti-national forces worked to put the former AAP ministers behind bars. All anti-national forces that want to halt the country’s progress are against AAP, said Arvind Kejriwal. He said those who are scared of it should quit the party.

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Kejriwal, who is thrilled about the AAP’s swift 10-year journey to national party status, called the achievement miraculous and incredible and claimed it is nothing less than a miracle. He also stated it also carries a significant amount of responsibility.

He further said the AAP’s ideology is based on three pillars- die-hard honesty, patriotism and humanity and it’s high time to remember its ideology. He thanked all those who contributed to the AAP’s growth and helped it achieve the national party status, and remembered his party colleagues Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain who are currently lodged in jail.

He urged people to join the AAP in order to make India the number one country in the world.

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Former Congress chief and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government in an editorial in The Hindu.

She said the Central government was systematically dismantling the pillars of India’s democracy, in the editorial titled ‘An enforced silence cannot solve India’s problems’.

Gandhi said it is a strategy of the people in power currently to disrupt parliamentary sessions and to prevent the opposition from discussing important matters and raising issues such as unemployment, inflation, social divisions, the Budget, and the Adani scam.

On the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha as a member after his conviction in a Surat court, Sonia Gandhi said the central government has taken unprecedented measures to combat the determined opposition.

Sonia Gandhi referred to these as tools of diversion to pass the Union Budget 2023 which projected expenditure of Rs 45 lakh crore and which was passed without any debate or discussion in Parliament.

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Sonia Gandhi on misuse of Central agencies

Gandhi said central probe agencies are being misused and over 95 per cent of the cases currently are against opposition parties who speak up against the government. Gandhi said opposition leaders who shake hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party find that cases against them automatically evaporate.

Last year, there were multiple summons against Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case. Huge nationwide protests were staged by the Congress party against the government alleging the misuse of the probe agencies.

The opposition parties on a daily routine are attacking the Central government against the misuse of central probe agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, the CBI to file cases against opposition leaders in order to silence them.

Last month, 14 opposition parties approached the Supreme Court alleging the misuse of these agencies. The Apex Court had however rejected the plea saying the parties cannot aspire to hold a greater status than citizens.

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Former Union Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘parivarvaad’ (dynastic politics) remarks in Telangana as he accused the BJP of playing “politics of convenience” listed past instances of the saffron party aligning with dynastic political families in various states in recent years.

In a sharp retort to PM Modi’s swipe at KCR in Hyderabad on Saturday, wherein he said that corruption and dynasty go hand in hand, the former IT minister in a tweet, asked why the BJP joined hands with dynastic families in various states, listing recent instances such as—Punjab (Akalis), Andhra Pradesh (Jagan), Haryana (Chautalas), J&K (Muftis) and Maharashtra (Thackerays)…. “Not dynasties when BJP joined them!”

Sibal said that it’s called politics of convenience.

The former Union minister wrote in another tweet: “PM: Takes a swipe at KCR, says dynasty and corruption go hand in hand. BJP makes allegations of corruption against AAP. No dynasty there. Need not be dynasty to allege corruption. You say BJP not dynasty. Is BJP corrupt?”

On Saturday, PM Modi in a veiled dig at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), said that “handful of people are encouraging ‘parivaarvaad’ (dynastic politics) in the state.

Addressing a public rally in Hyderabad, PM Modi urged KCR-led BRS government in the state to remove obstacles in development works which are in pipeline for the betterment of Telangana people.

The Prime Minister said he was “pained” at the alleged non-cooperation of the ruling dispensation towards central initiatives aimed at the southern state and without naming anyone, claimed that a handful of people encouraging ‘parivarvaad’ (dynastic politics) and trying to see where they can reap benefits from projects being implemented for the people of Telangana.

PM Modi alleged that the Telangana government was being non-cooperative which hindered the Centre’s development projects in the state and are “crushing the dreams of the people of Telangana.”