Arvind Kejriwal, AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister, will be back in jail today (June 2) as his plea seeking interim bail on medical grounds has been put off by a court.
Kejriwal, jailed in the Delhi excise case, was on a three-week temporary bail for poll campaigning. He was released from the jail on May 10 on bail granted by the Supreme Court for the Lok Sabha polls. The polls ended on yesterday, June 1.
The CM is expected to head back to jail at around 3 pm.
Kejriwal on Saturday held a meeting of the AAP’s Political Affairs Committee at his home, and then attended an INDIA bloc meeting at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.
Top AAP faces including Cabinet minister Atishi, Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh, and MLA Durgesh Pathak attended the PAC meeting. At the meeting, the chief minister stressed upon the need to maintain unity in the party in his absence.
Kejriwal will remain the chief minister, and his wife Sunita Kejriwal will continue to covey his messages to party leaders, volunteers and the people of Delhi, reports said.
Kejriwal had earlier moved the SC seeking a seven-day extension of his interim bail. The SC registry, however, refused an urgent listing of his plea. His plea had pleaded that he required time for medical tests as he was losing weight and was having high ketone level.
He then moved the special CBI-ED court seeking interim bail on medical grounds. Hearing his plea on June 1, the court of special judge Kaveri Baweja reserved for June 5 its order his application.