Kejriwal tweets in Elvis' support
PANAJI
AAP’s CM candidate Elvis Gomes found support on twitter from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as well from a battery of AAP supporters who gathered around the Crime Branch where Gomes was being questioned.
Kejirwal also retweeted several tweets from Goa BJP members and other AAP leaders who are currently camped in the State.
Kejriwal retweeted Elvis’ Twitter video message in which he is saying "Faced ACB Goa for 3 hours only. They couldn't get to me, neither could they disturb our Christmas spirit which soared all the more."
The AAP party accused the BJP government of raking up a dead case just because Elvis has been chosen as the party’s chief ministerial candidate.
"Elvis is an honest and upright ex-bureaucrat, renowned in Goa for his integrity. The case is from the year 2011, but five years later the ACB has suddenly sprung into action. On December 26, soon after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced Elvis as the CM candidate, Elvis was summoned and questioned for 3 hours in a completely fabricated case against him. If the BJP continues harassing honest leaders of the AAP, it will face the same fate in Goa that it did in Delhi in the 2015 election," AAP spokesperson Ashutosh said.
The AAP played a video clip of the current Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and Deputy Chief Minister Francis D'Souza praising Gomes profusely and admitting that Elvis Gomes was a brilliant officer of the Goa government. This video clip is from June 2016, before Gomes joined the Aam Aadmi Party.
“This makes it clear that the sudden action against Gomes is part of a political conspiracy to defame and silence the AAP's CM face in the state,” AAP’s media cell incharge Ashutosh said.
