Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday walked out of Tihar jail, hours after being granted bail in the corruption case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in connection with the alleged excise policy scam.
Addressing AAP workers and supporters after his release, Kejriwal said that he will continue fighting the “anti-national forces working to weaken our country.” The Delhi CM added that prisons cannot weaken him, and that his morale is now higher than ever.
Addressing the gathering of the AAP workers, including his wife Sunita Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Delhi Minister Atishi and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, among others, Kejriwal said in, “All of you came out in such large numbers in the rain, I want to thank you all for doing that. My life is devoted to the nation and I have faced a lot of struggles and hardship in my life, but God has been with me because I walked on the path of truth.”
Indirectly, he slammed the BJP for putting him in jail, and said some people put me in jail and thought that they would be able to break his morale. “Now that I came out of jail, my morale (‘haunsla’) and strength have gone up 100 times. I will follow the path God has shown me and I will keep serving the nation. I will keep fighting against the forces that are trying to divide the nation.”
Kejriwal was received by a huge crowd of supporters and party workers including senior leaders like Sanjay Singh. The development comes after the Supreme Court earlier in the day granted him bail in a corruption case related to the alleged excise scam. Kejriwal has been granted bail in the corruption case related to excise policy, filed by the CBI. He had already got the interim bail in the related money laundering case filed by the ED.
