'First tea of independent morning': AAP leader Manish Sisodia day after release from Tihar jail
New Delhi, August 10
A day after being released from Tihar Jail on bail, senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia shared a picture of having morning tea with his wife, captioning it the “first tea of an independent morning... after 17 months”.
This is his first post on X after being granted bail on Friday by the Supreme Court, which sharply rebuked the courts below saying his long incarceration without trial had deprived him of the right to speedy justice.
Sisodia on Saturday shared a morning selfie with his wife holding a cup of tea.
“First tea of an independent morning... After 17 months. The freedom that the Constitution has given to all of us Indians as a guarantee of the right to live.
“The freedom that God has given us to breathe in the open air with everyone,” he said on X in Hindi.
आज़ादी की सुबह की पहली चाय….. 17 महीने बाद!
वह आज़ादी जो संविधान ने हम सब भारतीयों को जीने के अधिकार की गारंटी के रूप में दी है।
वह आज़ादी जो ईश्वर ने हमें सबके साथ खुली हवा में साँस लेने के लिए दी है। pic.twitter.com/rPxmlI0SWF
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 10, 2024
Later, Sisodia paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the Rajghat memorial.
He reached the memorial after offering prayers at the Hanuman temple in Connaught Place. Sisodia was accompanied by several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, including MP Sanjay Singh and ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj.
After visiting the temple, Sisodia said, “May Lord Hanuman bless all the people of Delhi”. He hoped that with the blessing of Lord Hanuman, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who is in jail in the case, will also be released soon.
Sisodia will also visit the AAP headquarters on the DDU Marg to address party workers and leaders.
After walking out of the Tihar jail on Friday evening, Sisodia said he got bail due to the power of the Constitution, and asserted that the same power will ensure the release of Kejriwal.
Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on February 26 last year for purported irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22.
