Delhi minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi alleged on Tuesday that the BJP and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are targeting her, besides Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, MLA Durgesh Pathak, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and want to arrest them. The minister further said she was “threatened” to join the BJP if she did not wish to be arrested within the next month.

Accusing the saffron party of trying to topple the AAP and the Delhi government, she said, “After arresting four of our senior leaders – Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – the BJP is conspiring to arrest four more leaders of the AAP. They (BJP) thought AAP will fall with the arrest of CM Arvind Kejriwal and the senior leadership. Now as they found it is not going to happen, they are targeting us.”

Atishi added, “They are going to arrest me, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak and Raghav Chadha… After the mega INDIA alliance rally on Sunday, the BJP is scared now… So, it is plotting to arrest the remaining four senior leaders of the party," as reported by IndianExpress.

The minister also alleged that the ED will soon raid these leaders’ houses and issue summons to them before making the arrests. “I have also been told that soon, the ED is going to raid my personal residence, my relative’s place, and after that four of us will be issued summons and then will be arrested,” she said.

The minister further alleged that she was approached by the BJP and “threatened” to join the party.

“I want to tell the BJP that AAP leaders are not going to get scared of your threats. We are soldiers of Arvind Kejriwal, followers of Bhagat Singh. We will die, suffer but will not come under your trap and join the BJP. You can arrest all the leaders, all MLAs, but we will not stop our fight," she said.