New Delhi. After Germany and America, now the United Nations has also intervened in the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy scam case. Commenting on Kejriwal’s arrest, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed “hope” that in India and any other country where elections are being held, people’s “political and civil rights” will be protected and everyone “will Will be able to vote in a “free and fair” environment.
Comments of the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General
UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric made the comments on Thursday in response to a question about the political situation in India ahead of the upcoming national elections in the wake of Kejriwal’s arrest and the freeze on transactions from the opposition Congress Party’s bank accounts. “We have full hope that in India and any other country where elections are to be held, everyone’s rights, including political and civil rights, will be protected,” Dujarric said at a regular press conference on Thursday. “Everyone will be able to vote in a free and fair environment.” The UN response came a day after the United States responded similarly to a question about Kejriwal’s arrest and the freeze on transactions from the Congress party’s bank accounts.
India summoned the ambassadors of America and Germany
In response to certain comments made about Kejriwal’s arrest, a senior US diplomat was summoned by India, hours after Washington reiterated that it encourages fair, transparent and timely legal processes. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller had said, “I am not going to talk about any private diplomatic conversations, but certainly, what we have said publicly, I have said from here, is that “We encourage fair, transparent, we don’t think anyone should have any objection to that.”
India considered American comment inappropriate
After the US Ambassador’s comments on Kejriwal, Foreign Ministry officials in New Delhi had summoned the acting head of the US Embassy, Gloria Barbena. This meeting lasted for more than 30 minutes. India on Thursday termed as ‘inappropriate’ the US State Department’s comments on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying it is proud of its free and strong democratic institutions and is committed to protecting them from any unnecessary external influence. . The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Kejriwal in a money laundering case related to the liquor policy ‘scam’.