The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) portrayed the interim bail granted by the Supreme Court to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as a severe setback to the BJP-led Central government’s subversion of Central agencies to target political rivals.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, in a Facebook post, stated that the Supreme Court’s decision was a setback to the BJP, which calculated that it could hang on to power by jailing rivals without trial and on unproven charges. He said Mr. Kejriwal’s release would bolster the national campaign against the BJP’s authoritarian agenda.
He further alleged that the BJP had incarcerated Mr. Kejriwal on dubious corruption and money laundering charges to remove him from the Lok Sabha election campaign scene.
