Atishi said the upcoming Lok Sabha polls have become a ‘People vs BJP’ election.
Delhi Minister Atishi on Wednesday said the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will electorally benefit the AAP in the Lok Sabha polls as the party gains a lot of sympathy.
In an interview with PTI, Atishi termed the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate in an excise-related money laundering case as an attack on democracy that was “never seen before” in the country’s democratic history.
“The good thing is that it has given us electoral advantage,” she said, adding that before Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls was a foregone conclusion as people felt that the BJP would win .
“But after Kejriwal’s arrest, the level of public sympathy for us has increased. There is only one feeling that the BJP has gone a step too far. So I think it has given us electoral advantage,” Atishi told PTI.
She said the upcoming Lok Sabha polls have become a ‘People vs BJP’ election.
“These elections have become a very different kind of election. This is no longer an ‘AAP vs BJP’ or ‘INDIA block vs BJP’ election. After Kejriwal’s arrest, this is a ‘People vs BJP’ election,” she said. .
Arvind Kejriwal, national president of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 in the Delhi excise-related money laundering case and subsequently remanded to the organization’s custody till March 28 by a court here.
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