Confident SC will allow Kejriwal to campaign: Delhi Minister Bharadwaj

Delhi cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday said that the Aam Aadmi Party AAP is sure that the Supreme Court will allow Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to campaign in the Lok Sabha elections 2024 reported news agency PTIThe Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Monday a plea by Kejriwal challenging his arrest in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam Kejriwal presented his side before the Supreme Court through an affidavitThe AAP Leader said that in his affidavit Kejriwal has referred to the ED and CBI and said that the job of the investigating agencies is to present the truth before the court reported PTIIf CBI and ED got 1 lakh pages of documents and 80000 of them are in favour of Arvind Kejriwal and AAP then those 80000 documents were not presented before the court only those documents which were taken by pressurising people by putting them in jail by luring people with bail by luring people with pardon by luring people with ticket to contest elections from NDA only those testimonies were presented before the court by ED and CBI Bharadwaj said reported PTIHe said Kejriwal is the most vocal voice of the opposition and had he been out of jail he would have campaigned for all the parties of the INDIA bloc We are sure that to save democracy in this country and to protect the election system the Supreme Court will definitely allow Arvind Kejriwal to campaign he added reported PTIThe Delhi health minister claimed that for nearly two years the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation have been investigating this case issuing dozens of notices However neither the ED nor the CBI has been able to present a single piece of evidence against Arvind KejriwalHe said that the AAP leader has been arrested under a conspiracy to stop him from campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections 2024Meanwhile the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday claimed the Election Commission has banned its Lok Sabha campaign song Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se Denge but officials of the Delhi poll body said AAP was asked to modify the contents of the song since it violated ECs guidelines and advertising codesThe over twominute Lok Sabha elections 2024 campaign song penned and sung by AAP MLA Dilip Pandey was released at the party headquarters here on ThursdayIn a statement the Delhi Chief Electoral Office said during a review and scrutiny of the advertisement submitted by AAP the Media Pre Certification Committee headed by Delhis joint chief electoral officer made certain observations with reference to various provisions and guidelines stipulated by the Election CommissionThe said creativeadvertisement was returned along with the observations with the request to modify the contents of the creative as per the Advertising Codes prescribed under the Cable Television Network Rules 1994 and ECI guideline norms circulated vide letter dated August 24 2023 and resubmit after modification for the certification it saidThe statement said that the party was also informed that in case it does not agree with the decision of the committee it can file an appeal before the statelevel Media Certification and Monitoring CommitteeWith inputs from PTI