Day after CBI raid, Manish Sisodia says 2024 Lok Sabha polls will be Modi vs Kejriwal fight

A day after the CBI raided his residence Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday claimed that the 2024 Lok Sabha polls will be a battle between Arvind Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who he alleged was using all means to scare the AAP supremoNoting that the Delhi excise policy was implemented with complete transparency and there was no scam Sisodia said they want to stop Arvind Kejriwal whose work on education and health is being talked about in the worldThe CBI on Friday morning carried out searches at the residences of Sisodia and IAS officer Arava Gopi Krishna apart from 19 other locations after registering an FIR in connection with the alleged corruption in implementation of the Delhi excise policy officials saidAlso Read Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia among 15 persons named in CBI FIR on excise policyI want to thank the CBI for not causing any inconvenience to my family They are good officers but they have orders from above to carry out raids he said during a media briefingSisodia claimed that they were being targeted because their worry is Arvind Kejriwal who has gained the love of the people of this country and has emerged as a national optionThey are not concerned about any scam in the excise policy They are scared of Kejriwal who has gained the love of people specially after the partys victory in Punjab assembly elections They want to stop the good work being done in education and health sectors They first arrested Satyendar Jain who was holding the charge of the health portfolio and I will also be arrested in the next couple of days he claimedSisodia termed the Excise Policy 202122 as the best policy and said there was no wrongdoing in its implementation but a conspiracy to scare KejriwalAlso Read CM Arvind Kejriwal kingpin in Delhis liquor scam alleges BJPThis is not befitting of a prime minister who has got the peoples mandate The difference between Kejriwal and Modi is that the former thinks about poor people and the latter thinks about his select friends Kejriwal appreciates those who do good work but Modi only dreams of making state governments fall and using central agencies like CBI and ED to target those who are doing good he saidDelhi Lt Governor V K Saxena last month recommended a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Excise Policy 202122He had also suspended 11 excise officials in the matter Sisodia had also demanded a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the policyTalking about the front page New York Times article about Delhis education Model he said it was due to the hard work of teachers hereThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever