New Delhi: President Draupadi Murmu has accepted the resignations of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Minister Satyendra Jain, each at the moment incarcerated in Tihar jail on corruption and cash laundering prices respectively. The president additionally appointed get together MPs Aam Aadmi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi Marlena as ministers within the Delhi authorities led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
“The President is pleased to accept, on the advice of the Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the resignation of Shri Manish Sisodia, Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, with immediate effect,” an announcement learn. official notification. An analogous notification was issued relating to Jain.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 for alleged corruption within the formulation and implementation of Delhi’s now scrapped alcohol or excise coverage for 2021-2022. He is at the moment in custody till March 20.
Jain, who can also be in police custody, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged cash laundering case on May 30, 2022. Bharadwaj has been a PAA MP since 2013 and is at the moment Deputy -Chairman of the Board of Delhi Jal. He served as a minister within the first short-lived Kejriwal authorities in 2013.
