Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday, claiming that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is being “tortured” in Tihar jail by orders of the central government. Singh also accused the jail administration of “inhuman” conduct for denying an in-person meeting between Kejriwal and his wife, Sunita Kejriwal.
At a press conference in the national capital, Sanjay Singh stated, “Elected thrice with an overwhelming majority, the Chief Minister of 2 crore people in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, is being ‘tortured,’ at the behest of the Government of India, at the behest of the Prime Minister of the country.”
“Efforts are being made to break his morale and every now and then an attempt is being made to destroy even the minimum rights and facilities available to anyone and all this is being done openly,” he stated.
Sanjay Singh further added “The information I want to give you today may have come for the first time in the history of Tihar Jail. It is an obvious matter, the officials in any administration are pawns who work under the instructions of the higher-ups.”
“Now, let me tell you about the meeting permit for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at Tihar. According to the jail manual and rules of the jail, under 602 and 605, anyone can have a face-to-face meeting in the jail,” he stated.
Continuing he said, “However, when Arvind Kejriwal’s wife, whom everybody knows is at the present time worried and tensed, and while his parents, both of whom are ill, came to meet him at the jail, she was told that she could not meet him face-to-face or in a room but rather through a window”.
He continued to question,”Why was such inhuman behaviour meted out towards him? This inhuman act has been done just to humiliate and discourage Arvind Kejriwal,” he asserted.
“I am saying with full responsibility that even the dreaded criminals are allowed to meet in the barrack, but a three-time CM of Delhi is allowed to meet his wife through a window with a glass in between,” said the AAP leader.
Arvind Kejriwal is presently in Tihar Jail under judicial custody. The Enforcement Directorate arrested him last month related to the Delhi liquor policy case. Sanjay Singh, who had been incarcerated in connection with the same case since October of the previous year, was released on bail earlier this month.
Earlier this week, it was claimed that Tihar authorities threatened to block family visits after a message was passed to AAP MLAs through lawyers. The BJP has called for Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation as Delhi’s chief minister on moral grounds, while the AAP maintains that he will continue to serve Delhi from within jail as he has not been convicted in any case.