After day-long raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation at the Delhi Secretariat, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
looked directly into the television cameras, struck an aggressive pose,
pointed his index finger and sent out a warning to the Prime Minister:
“Modiji, others might get scared of your strong arm tactics – CBI raids
etc. I’m not intimidated. You don’t know as yet what mettle I am made
of. I will fight for the country till my last breath.”
Earlier in the day, he had taken to Twitter to label PM Modi a “coward
and a psychopath”, later refusing to retract his invective.
The histrionics on display did enough to project a CBI raid as a direct
confrontation between Modi and Kejriwal. The Chief Minister had
successfully upped the stakes and grabbed the national headlines.
He then went a step further and levelled a direct accusation against
one of the most important ministers in the Modi Cabinet: Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley, a charge that was bound to make the government
squirm.
Kejriwal alleged the CBI raids
were aimed at getting hold of an inquiry committee file relating to the
functioning of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA), of which
Jaitley is a past president. “Yeh file hai DDCA ka file jiske andar Arun
Jaitley phas rahe hain (This file pertains to the DDCA probe in which
Arun Jaitley is getting trapped),” Kejriwal said.
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