'Modi Retiring Next Year...': Kejriwal Asks Who Is BJP's PM Candidate, Says They Are Getting 220 Seats

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday addressed his first press conference after being released from jail on Friday and launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government saying “they left no stone unturned to crush our party and sent four leaders to jail simultaneously”.

“…Our Aam Aadmi Party is a small party, present in two states. But the Prime Minister left no stone unturned to crush our party and sent four leaders to jail simultaneously. If four top leaders of big parties go to jail, the party ends. The Prime Minister wants to crush AAP…PM Modi himself believes that AAP is the one that will give future to the country…” he said.

“I am coming straight from jail to you. It feels great to be with you after 50 days. I just went to Hanuman temple with my wife and CM Bhagwant Mann. Bajrang Bali’s blessings are on our party and us. It is by his grace that I am among you today…” he said

AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal walked out of Tihar Jail on Friday, after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1 in the liquor policy case.

‘Arvind Kejriwal Is Not A Person, Arvind Kejriwal Is A Thought’

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who was also present during the press conference, said, “Whether I went to Assam, Gujarat or Punjab, I just said that Arvind Kejriwal is not a person, Arvind Kejriwal is a thought, you will arrest the person, how to arrest the thought?…In the first 3 rounds (of LS polls), PM Modi got to know that this time it is not going to be ‘400 paar’…There is a slogan coming from the women wing- ’25 May, BJP gayi’…”

Earlier in the day, Kejriwal visited the Hanuman Temple at Connaught Place on Saturday accompanied by his wife Sunita and Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann and thanked Lord Hanuman for his interim bail after 40 days in judicial custody.

Opposition leaders also welcomed Kejriwal’s interim bail, saying the “fight to save democracy” will now be with more intensity.

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