Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal walked out of Tihar Jail on Friday, hours after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1. Kejriwal left the jail premises accompanied by his wife Sunita Kejriwal, his daughter Harshita and senior AAP leaders including Bhagwant Mann, Atishi, Saurabh Bhardwaj and Sandeep Pathak.
Kejriwal will participate in a roadshow in South Delhi today along with his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann. This will be Kejriwal’s first roadshow after walking out of Tihar Jail on Friday.
AAP has fielded Sahi Ram Pahalwan from the South Delhi parliamentary constituency. Under a seat-sharing arrangement between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the former has fielded candidates from three Lok Sabha seats in Delhi while the latter is contesting from the remaining four.
The Delhi CM visited the Hanuman Temple at Connaught Place at 11:00 am on Saturday to pay obeisance to the deity, following which he will address a press conference at the party office at 1:00 pm.
Yesterday, Kejriwal thanked the people for their blessing and expressed gratitude to the judges of the Supreme Court for granting him bail.
“It feels good to be amongst you all. I had promised to come back soon and here I am…I have a request, we have to save the country from dictatorship. I am fighting against it with all might, but 140 crore people (of the country) will have to come together to fight against it,” he said.
Clad in yellow T-shirts, AAP supporters danced to dhol beats and fed each other sweets at the party office in New Delhi on Friday as they celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to grant interim bail to Kejriwal in a money laundering case.
#WATCH | Firecrackers being burst outside Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, following his release from Tihar Jail.The Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1. pic.twitter.com/zXu3cg6eTK
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Slogans like “Jail ke taale toot gaye, Kejriwal ji chhoot gaye”, “Modi ji ja rahe hain, Kejriwal ji aa rahe hain,” and “Dekho dekho kon aaya, sher aaya sher aaya” rent the air at the AAP office.
Many supporters carried posters with slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi written on them.
Describing the interim bail as a blessing of Lord Hanuman to his devotee Kejriwal, AAP leaders said his release from judicial custody will pave the way for “big changes” in the country.
With inputs from News18