'Complete insult to judiciary': Sitharaman on Kejriwal's appeal to voters

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an interview with CNN-News18 hit out against Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. In the interview, Sitharaman said that Kejriwal was playing “ruthless dirty politics" and is “grossly insulting the courts" with his statements made during the election campaign.

Sitharaman told CNN-News18, “by repeatedly saying and appealing to people that if you press AAP symbol, I will not need to go to jail — is he trying to say that the courts are doing politics or courts are going by basis of votes which are coming?" The minister further added that,“he is politicising the whole legal process…if he thinks this is going to benefit him, he is being very short-sighted. What he is saying is a complete insult to the judiciary," Sitharaman said.

The minister, during the interview, said that Kejriwal was building a false narrative and that he does not believe in the intelligence of the common people or he believes in manipulating them.

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