Kejriwal alleges he was arrested to topple AAP govts in Delhi, Punjab
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New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal, the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the chief minister of Delhi, charged that the BJP was using his arrest to overthrow the governments his party had formed in Punjab and Delhi.
Speaking to his party's MLAs in Delhi on Sunday, Kejriwal said that the AAP had grown "more united" following his detention and that the BJP's attempt to break the party had failed.
"BJP people would say before my arrest, that they will break the party and topple the governments in Delhi and Punjab," Kejriwal said, the New Indian Express reported.
"They had a plan that they will arrest me, break the party, topple the government in Delhi and then in Punjab as well. After arrest, their plan failed. You all did not break," he said.
After Kejriwal was detained by the Enforcement on March 21 in connection with a money laundering investigation related to the Delhi excise policy scandal, the Supreme Court granted him interim bail on Friday.
The AAP chief also unleashed a vicious attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi the day after he was released, saying he was on a "one nation, one leader" crusade to establish "dictatorship" by imprisoning all opposition leaders and "politically finishing off" those in the BJP.