Her third video conference since Kejriwal’s arrest was different from the first two in that she did not just appear as his wife but launched the Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign to garner support for her husband. She shared a WhatsApp number and asked people to send messages for Kejriwal and said she would carry them to jail and convey them to him. In her first two conferences, she had only conveyed her husband’s message.
In her first video conference on March 23, Sunita Kejriwal appealed to the people to keep her husband in their prayers and assured that he would keep working for Delhi from behind bars. On March 27, she addressed her second conference, informing people that she had met the CM in custody and that he would make a big revelation in court the next day.
The opposition BJP said it was just a matter of time before Sunita took up the Delhi CM’s post. Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri took a swipe at Kejriwal saying that he had “very limited time” and that Sunita was likely preparing to take his post soon. “Kejriwal’s wife was not only a colleague in the revenue service. They have sidelined everyone. Now madam is likely preparing for the top post,” Puri said on Friday. “Kejriwal didn’t answer summons nine times. Then the Enforcement Directorate officers went to his house. Let it be, Kejriwal’s time is very limited.”
Sunita Kejriwal is a former Indian Revenue Service officer, who served in the Income Tax department for 22 years. She met Arvind Kejriwal during a training programme in Bhopal. She is from the 1994 batch, while her husband is from the 1995 batch.
