Reacting to the arrest of its leader Amanatullah Khan by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) called him a ‘revolutionary who won't surrender before a dictator.'
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“Revolutionaries will not bow down to the tyranny of a dictator. BJP's ED took Aam Aadmi Party MLA @KhanAmanatullah ji in custody in a fake case. The more BJP people try to suppress us, the more vocal our voice will be,” it said in a post on X shortly after his arrest by the central agency on Monday.
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The legislator from Okhla in the national capital, was arrested after several hours of a raid that began with a team of ED officials arriving at his Okhla residence early in the morning. The agency took the action as part of its money laundering probe against the politician in connection with the alleged irregularities in appointments in the Delhi Waqf Board case and leasing of Waqf properties.
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Khan was taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
{{/usCountry}}Khan was taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
{{/usCountry}}Meanwhile, Virendra Sachdeva, the Delhi unit president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), justified Khan's arrest, saying that the ‘law was taking its own course.’
“If you are appointing people in the Delhi Waqf Board illegally…if you are indulging in corrupt activities with money that was to be used for the public, the law will take its own course. These corrupt leaders of the AAP should know that the law will do its job,” Sachdeva stated.
“Half of the AAP is in jail…Amanatullah himself symbolises hooliganism. The Aam Aadmi Party must introspect,” the BJP Delhi president added.