Arvind Kejriwal attacks Centre over CBI's look out notice to Manish Sisodia: 'Har subha CBI-ED ka khel shuru...'

"At a time when the common man is battling inflation and crores of youths are unemployed, the central government along with all state governments should fight unemployment and inflation. Instead, they are fighting with the entire country," the Delhi Chief Minister said over CBI's lookout notice against his deputy Manish Sisodia.

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday (August 21, 2022) hit out at the Centre over CBI's lookout notice against his deputy Manish Sisodia and said that it is "fighting with the entire country" instead of working with state governments to address issues of unemployment and inflation. Taking to his official Twitter account, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief also said that every morning Centre wakes up and starts the "game of CBI-ED". 

"At a time when the common man is battling inflation and crores of youths are unemployed, the central government along with all state governments should fight unemployment and inflation. Instead, they are fighting with the entire country.

"Every morning they wake up and start the game of CBI-ED. How will the country progress like this?" the Delhi CM said in a tweet in Hindi.

ऐसे समय जब आम इंसान महंगाई से जूझ रहा है, करोड़ों की संख्या में युवा बेरोज़गार हैं, केंद्र सरकार को सभी राज्य सरकारों के साथ मिलकर बेरोज़गारी और महंगाई से लड़ना चाहिए।उसकी बजाय ये पूरे देश से लड़ रहे हैं। रोज़ सुबह उठकर CBI ED का खेल शुरू कर देते हैं। ऐसे देश कैसे तरक़्क़ी करेगा? — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 21, 2022

Earlier in the day, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia claimed that the CBI has issued a lookout notice against him and called the move a "drama". Sisodia that he is "roaming freely" in Delhi and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he is unable to find him.

"All your raids have failed, nothing was found. Misappropriation of even a single penny was not found. Now you have issued a lookout notice stating that Manish Sisodia cannot be found. What is this drama Modi ji? I am roaming freely in Delhi, tell me where I have to come. Are you unable to find me?" Sisodia tweeted.

आपकी सारी रेड फैल हो गयी, कुछ नहीं मिला, एक पैसे की हेरा फेरी नहीं मिली, अब आपने लुक आउट नोटिस जारी किया है कि मनीष सिसोदिया मिल नहीं रहा। ये क्या नौटंकी है मोदी जी?
मैं खुलेआम दिल्ली में घूम रहा हूँ, बताइए कहाँ आना है? आपको मैं मिल नहीं रहा? — Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 21, 2022

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday raided 31 locations including Sisodia's residence in connection with the irregularities in the Delhi government's Excise Policy 2021-22. Sisodia is among 13 people named as accused in an FIR registered by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of the excise policy.

The CBI raids on Friday came after Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena last month recommended a probe by the agency into the alleged violations of rules and procedural lapses in the implementation of the policy that came into effect from November 17 last year.

The Delhi government withdrew the policy in July after Saxena recommended the probe.

(With agency inputs)