BJP’s challenger role in its sights, AAP braces to ride out Sisodia, Jain storm | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express

In his press conference on Friday, Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal made it clear that the CBI’s action against Manish Sisodia was expected and that his party will not back down from what he increasingly sees as its role: a challenger to the Narendra Modi-led BJP.

As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s raid at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence was underway on Friday, the CM and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal started a media address by congratulating the nation over a front-page news report published by the New York Times on the AAP government’s efforts to improve Delhi’s education system.

Kejriwal then made it clear that the CBI’s action against Sisodia was expected and that his party will not back down from what he increasingly sees as its role: a challenger to the Narendra Modi-led BJP.

On August 17, Kejriwal held an event at Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium to announce the launch of the “Mission to Make India Number 1” and his “panch kaam” or five-point vision that includes free education, free healthcare, employment for youth, respect, dignity, equality and safety of women, and right price for farmers’ produce.

This came two days after Prime Minister Modi declared his “panch pran (five resolutions)” in his Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

During his eight-minute address, Kejriwal mentioned the CBI’s raid only once – just to say that the central agency should be allowed to do its job, claiming that they would not find anything against education minister Sisodia.

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