Atishi, who is a Cabinet minister in the Delhi government, said, “Actually it is the BJP and not the ED that wants to know what is there on Kejriwal’s phone”.The excise policy was implemented in 2021-22 and the chief minister’s current phone is just a few months old, Atishi claimed.The ED has said that Kejriwal’s phone from that period is not available, and now, it wants the password of his new phone, Atishi said.”They want it because they will find in it details of AAP’s Lok Sabha poll strategy, campaign plans, talks with INDIA bloc leaders and information regarding media and social media strategy,” she said.The ED counsel said in the court that custody of Kejriwal was required for a few more days because he has not disclosed the password of his phone, Atishi said.She charged that the BJP wanted to know AAP’s strategy for contesting the parliamentary elections in Delhi, Punjab, Gujarat, and Assam where the party has fielded its candidates on a total of 22 seats, she said.The Excise Policy 2021-22 was formulated and implemented between November 2021 and August 2022.”So I want to ask the ED why they want to examine a phone that is only a few months old when they know that it is not the phone used during the policy period?” she questioned She claimed that the AAP national convener was arrested for hindering and sabotaging the party’s Lok Sabha election contest.The Delhi BJP chief said both Kejriwal and Sisodia “admitted to having changed several phones”.”Kejriwal and former deputy CM Manish Sisodia changed their phones frequently, AAP leaders must reveal the reason behind this,” Sachdeva said.Sisodia is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested in the excise policy-linked money laundering case.
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