Delhi ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia visits Golden Temple in Amritsar

Amritsar, August 25

Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia paid obeisance at the Golden Temple today and also prayed for party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s release. It was Sisodia’s maiden visit to Punjab after being granted bail by the Supreme Court recently in the excise policy case.

Sisodia, a former Delhi deputy chief minister, was accompanied by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, and Cabinet Ministers Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Harbhajan Singh ETO, among other party leaders.

Talking to media, Sisodia said he paid obeisance to thank the Almighty. “Truth must prevail. With God’s grace, I am out of jail and I wish that Kejriwal ji, too, would be released soon,” he added.

Kejriwal is lodged in Tihar jail in connection with a corruption case linked to the alleged excise policy scam being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Sisodia recalled his 17 months in Tihar jail and claimed that he was put behind bars “under a conspiracy”. “While in jail, I always prayed to visit the Golden Temple first to seek blessings as and when I will be free. I believed that the two things — uparwale ki kripa (God’s blessings) and power of desh ka savidhan (Indian Constitution) — had scuttled the nefarious designs of the BJP against AAP leadership,” he said.

CM Mann also alleged that the BJP tried to break the AAP by sending party leaders to jail on frivolous charges.