The AAP leader is at the receiving end. Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is still in jail following his arrest on charges of alleged corruption, along with former deputy Manish Sisodia, who is currently leading the party’s campaign for the assembly polls in Delhi and Haryana.
Sisodia, who is associated with corruption and money laundering cases related to the Delhi liquor policy case, has recovered bail from the Supreme Court and is going to hold a meeting of the senior party members today.
Arvind Kejriwal, the 52-year-old leader of Aam Aadmi Party, was finally released from Tihar jail late Friday, after completing seventeen months of imprisonment, thus serving as a morale booster for the AAP, which had suffered a huge setback due to Kejriwal’s incarceration owing to alleged corruption in the liquor policy scam.
The AAP leaders’ meeting will take place this evening at 6 p.m. at Sisodia’s house. Haryana assembly elections, in which AAP has said it will contest on all 90 seats, are later this year, while Delhi’s 70 seats are likely to happen in early 2025.
Along with Kejriwal, the major mascot of the AAP since its inception after the 2011 anti-corruption movement has been Manish Sisodia, who was designated the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi.
The party attributes credit to Sisodia for articulating his strategic position in the complex, multi-formed governance structure of Delhi and ‘transforming’ the system of education in Delhi Government Schools.
Sisodia had been handling 18 important ministries in its Delhi cabinet before he tendered his resignation over situating at the CBI on February 28, 2023, for alleged fraudulence in preparing and executing the erstwhile Delhi liquor policy 2021-22.
Sisodia has three times won the Delhi assembly elections and is now representing the Patparganj constituency in East Delhi.
