CBI being used to derail Delhi's educational revolution: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party came out in full support of Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia after Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raids at his residence on Friday and said the BJP government at the Centre was resorting to these measures as it was "scared" of the growing popularity of the party and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The party's national spokesman, Sanjay Singh, said the CBI was being "misused" to "derail the Kejriwal government's education and healthcare revolution". Singh said, "A Prime Minister who can't tolerate his country's progress on education and health has no right to rule the country." AAP leader Raghav Chadha said the CBI would find nothing but "pencils and geometry boxes" at the home of Sisodia, who is also Delhi's education minister. The BJP was planning to jail the deputy CM, he alleged, adding that more than 100 fake cases had been registered against AAP leaders but they came clean in courts every time.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal defended his deputy and said, "Many obstacles will be created in our mission. This is not the first raid on Sisodia; there were raids in the past too. There have been raids on many of our ministers and me too. But nothing came out of them and nothing will come out this time as well."


As a CBI team reached Sisodia's residence in the morning, he took to Twitter to welcome the CBI, saying conspiracies will not break him nor deter his resolve to continue to work for providing good education. The timing of the raid was interesting as it was conducted on the same day The New York Times' international edition carried a front page article with Sisodia's photograph, lauding the AAP government's efforts to improve educational facilities. AAP was quick to draw parallels with how the newspaper had taken a grim view of the Modi government's response to Covid-19 outbreak.