Modi says hopeful Kejriwal's arrest won't set precedent — ‘other politicians won’t be so lacking in morals’

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New Delhi:Taking a dig at jailed rival Arvind Kejriwal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed hope in an interview with theTimes of Indiathat the formers arrest the first of a sitting chief minister in India would not become a precedent...

Modi said he felt that other politicians wont be so lacking in morals and will not go to this extent, while responding to a question about whether the sitting Delhi CM being in jail would become a precedent given that it was against conventioneven though the law was silent on this...

Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener, was arrested on 21 March for alleged money laundering in a case tied to the Delhi governments now-withdrawn liquor policy of 2021-22..

It is not polarisation to show that Congress has violated the Constitution and enacted laws providing reservation on the basis of religion, he said.. Modi pointed out that while the Constitution prohibits reservations based on religion, the Congress government in Karnataka reversed the law passed by BJP to provide reservation to OBCs and gave it to Muslims, classifying all Muslims as OBC...

One nation, one poll is going to ensure that as a nation, our time, effort and resources get invested more productively towards nation-building In our third term, one will see concrete steps being taken on the matter, he said.. Stressing that UCC was one of their core agendas, Modi said BJP governments in states were mulling its implementation..

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