NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government comparing its leadership with that of the British rule , saying that even the Britishers could not have anticipated a ruler more oppressive than them. The remarks came in as Kejriwal recalled the restrictions put upon him while he was in jail. "75 years after the independence achieved after Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, a revolutionary CM went to jail.
I had written only one letter from jail and that was to LG that I am in jail and Atishi should be allowed to hoist the flag in my place. My letter did not reach me and instead, I was warned that if I wrote again, I would not be allowed to meet my family," Kejriwal, who is set to resign from the top post in two days, said. "Even the British had not thought that in independent India, there would be a bigger dictator than the British in this country.
Even Britisher wouldn't have thought that there would come a crueller ruler than them," he added. He cited the example of the friendship between Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt and said, "One day Sandeep Pathak went to meet me, he did not come to talk about romantics, he came to talk about political things and then after that, he was blacklisted from meeting me." 'Maa Sita gave agnipariksha , I am also ready' After declaring that he would quit from the chief ministerial position, Kejriwal said that it was his ' agnipariksha' theft and corruption' levelled by the BJP regar.