AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Friday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita is the best person to “keep the party together” in the prevailing circumstances. He also asserted that her presence has had a “positive effect” on the cadre.
Sunita Kejriwal has always said she is the “messenger” of Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently lodged in jail, Delhi Minister Bharadwaj stated, adding that her presence has had a positive impact.
“She is delivering the messages of Arvind Kejriwal ji. This has had a great impact on our party cadre and among our sympathisers. We want to propagate it. In the present circumstances, she is the best person to keep the party together,” Bharadwaj said.
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering case linked to the Delhi government’s now-scrapped excise policy scam. He is in judicial custody till April 15.
His wife, Sunita Kejriwal has addressed three digital briefings so far, in which she read out his messages from the ED custody and Tihar Jail.
Bharadwaj further spoke about Sunita Kejriwal’s attendance at the INDIA bloc’s ‘Loktantra Bachao’ rally on March 31 and said, “BJP’s strategy is that ‘we arrested their leaders, now they will surrender before us’. But when their wives come on the stage and say ‘we will not surrender’, it shows that they (leaders) might be in jail, but their families have not weakened. When Arvind Kejriwal’s wife was there (at the INDIA bloc rally), it made an emotional connect with the party cadre.”
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Asked if Sunita Kejriwal will campaign for the party in the Lok Sabha polls, Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “We would love if this thing happens… if Sunita ji does take part in campaigning but it is her personal decision.”
On being asked whether there was some kind of “message” in Sunita Kejriwal taking the stage after her husband’s arrest, the minister replied in the negative.
(With PTI inputs)
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