Government will not be run from jail, assures Lt Governor VK Saxena to people of Delhi

"The government in the national capital cannot be run from jail," said Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Wednesday.

“I can assure the people of Delhi that the government will not be run from jail," LG Saxena said at the Times Now Summit.

The LG's statement came against the backdrop of statements by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which said their supremo Arvind Kejriwal will continue as chief minister and will run the government even if he is behind bars.

Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday (March 21) night in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. He became the serving chief minister to have gone to jail.

On Friday, Kejriwal was remanded to ED's custody till March 28 "for his detailed and sustained interrogation" regarding his role in the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy scam.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 23 strongly reacted to AAP's remark that Kejriwal will run the government from jail, saying only "gangs" run from inside the prison.

The BJP has also demanded the resignation of Kejriwal on moral grounds.

"Those who are repeatedly saying they will run the government from jail, then remember, we have seen gangs being run from jail and not the government," Manoj Tiwari said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal said the Delhi CM would reveal the truth about the “so-called liquor scam” when he appears in front of the high court on Thursday.

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“Arvind Kejriwal has said he will reveal before the court on March 28 where “money of ‘so-called liquor scam’ is. He will ’truthfully’ tell the people of the country where the money is and will also provide evidence,” Sunita Kejriwal said in a video message on Wednesday.

She further informed me that she met Kejriwal at the ED office on Tuesday.

With inputs from agencies