Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would manage the government from prison if he is caught in the excise policy case, according to Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, and cabinet ministers and personnel will go to jail in order to attend meetings.
Following a meeting of MLAs at the Delhi legislative assembly, which Kejriwal summoned after receiving a summons from the Enforcement Directorate about the purported liquor policy scam, the statement was made.
The chief minister disregarded the summons, which was delivered to Kejriwal on October 30 and asked him to appear before the ED on November 2, referring to them as "illegal" and "politically motivated." Following the meeting, Bharadwaj briefed the media alongside his cabinet colleague Atishi. He said that all of the MLAs agreed that Kejriwal will continue to lead the government from behind bars because he had the people of Delhi's mandate.
“There is no provision in the Constitution that mandates the resignation of the chief minister if they are placed in jail for a trial. Arvind Kejriwal will continue to run the government from prison and hold meetings with officers and ministers inside the jail complex,” Bharadwaj said.
The Delhi health minister added that the action against the chief minister in a false case proved that PM Narendra Modi and BJP were afraid only of Arvind Kejriwal. He said BJP seems to have realised that it cannot remove Kejriwal from power through elections and it was now only possible “through conspiracies”.