Will be arrested in 2-4 days: Manish Sisodia on CBI raids

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the AAP leader said on Saturday that he might be arrested soon stating that the liquor issue or the excise policy was just an excuse to target him since he was a minister under the Delhi Chief Minister Arwind Kejriwal.

According to Sisodia, the raids against him were entirely political in nature and had nothing to do with the claimed contraventions of Delhi’s Excise Policy.

“Maybe within the next 3-4 days, CBI-ED will arrest me… we won’t be scared, you won’t be able to break us… Elections of 2024 will be AAP vs BJP,” said Sisodia while addressing a press conference.

“Their issue is not liquor/excise scam. Their problem is Arvind Kejriwal… whole proceedings against me, raids at my residence and office, are to stop Arvind Kejriwal… I haven’t done any corruption. I’m just Arvind Kejriwal’s Education Minister,” he added.

On a day when the CBI conducted raids at numerous sites in connection with a case involving the AAP government’s now-retracted excise policy, Sisodia said earlier on Friday that he and his family had cooperated with the agency, which he said was “being exploited” by the Center.

Notably, Sisodia was one of 15 people detained in a CBI-filed FIR. Excise officers, executives from alcohol companies, dealers, as well as some unidentified governmental officials and private citizens, have all been arrested in the case.