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NEW DELHI: After govt took strong exception to US remarks on the arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, BJP on Thursday slammed the US state department.
“US state department is way out of line in its statements pertaining to the arrest of Kejriwal and the I-T dept’s attachment of Congress funds. It is in fact a slur on the Indian judiciary, which is seized of both these matters,” said BJP leader Mahesh Jethmalani.
Jethmalani further said that India has a robust non-partisan judiciary, which has in very recent times rejected the govt’s stand on two electoral issues: electoral bonds case and Chandigarh mayoral polls.
“It ill behoves the most powerful country in the world to cast implicit aspersions on the rule of law in proven democracies who are now trusted allies,” Jethmalani said.
He said that the state department would be well advised to focus its concerns on speedy and fair outcomes in the crucial cases of Hunter Biden and Donald J Trump‘s 6th January 2021 imbroglio if it is truly concerned about level election playing fields.
“US state department is way out of line in its statements pertaining to the arrest of Kejriwal and the I-T dept’s attachment of Congress funds. It is in fact a slur on the Indian judiciary, which is seized of both these matters,” said BJP leader Mahesh Jethmalani.
Jethmalani further said that India has a robust non-partisan judiciary, which has in very recent times rejected the govt’s stand on two electoral issues: electoral bonds case and Chandigarh mayoral polls.
“It ill behoves the most powerful country in the world to cast implicit aspersions on the rule of law in proven democracies who are now trusted allies,” Jethmalani said.
He said that the state department would be well advised to focus its concerns on speedy and fair outcomes in the crucial cases of Hunter Biden and Donald J Trump‘s 6th January 2021 imbroglio if it is truly concerned about level election playing fields.
Son of US President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, has been charged in Delaware with lying on a federal form to buy a gun in 2018 by saying he wasn’t using or addicted to illegal drugs, even though he has acknowledged being addicted to crack cocaine at the time. He has pleaded not guilty in that case, which also accuses him of possessing the gun illegally.
India on Thursday said US state department’s recent remarks on the arrest of Kejriwal were “unwarranted” and asserted country was “proud of its independent and robust democratic institutions” and committed to protect them from any form of undue external influences.
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