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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) observed a day-long 'Samuhik Upwas', or 'mass fast' on Sunday to protest against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister and the party's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate last month in connection to the liquor policy case..
While the AAP's main event at Delhi's Jantar Mantar began at 10 am today, the party will also organise the mass event across the capital cities of 25 Indian states, alongside New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Toronto, Melbourne and London.. AAP leader Sanjay Singh, who was released on bail on April 4 following his arrest last October in the Delhi liquor police case, addressed the protest event on Sunday and asserted that Arvind Kejriwal was, is, and will remain honest"...
Speaking to the ANI news agency at Jantar Mantar, she said that everyone wants the Delhi Chief Minister to be granted bail and the "BJP's ED and CBI haven't been able to show a single penny of liquor scam from the leaders of AAP"...
Meanwhile, the BJP also held a counter-protest against the AAP's 'Samuhik Upwas', dubbed Sharab se sheesh mahal, with Delhi party president Virendraa Sachdeva saying that they wanted to reveal the "corruption model" of Arvind Kejriwal...
"People of Delhi can see the Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Akshardham temple, Lotus Temple, Kartavya Path, but cannot see the Chief Minister's scum of corruption as they cannot go inside it (Kejriwal's Raj Mahal)," he told the ANI news agency...
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