{"id":35245,"date":"2026-07-14T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/kejriwal-condemns-convicted-aap-member-tahir-hussain-after-ib-officers-murder-verdict-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:35:53","slug":"kejriwal-condemns-convicted-aap-member-tahir-hussain-after-ib-officers-murder-verdict-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/kejriwal-condemns-convicted-aap-member-tahir-hussain-after-ib-officers-murder-verdict-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kejriwal Condemns Convicted AAP Member Tahir Hussain After IB Officer&#8217;s Murder Verdict | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132386800,imgsize-116963,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/kejriwal-reacts-to-tahir-hussains-conviction.jpg\" alt=\"'Expelled him from AAP long back': How Kejriwal reacted to Tahir Hussain's conviction\" title=\"Kejriwal reacts to Tahir Hussain's conviction (ANI image on right)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Kejriwal reacts to Tahir Hussain's conviction (ANI image on right)\">Kejriwal reacts to Tahir Hussain&#8217;s conviction (ANI image on right)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/arvind-kejriwal\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Arvind Kejriwal<\/a> on Tuesday distanced the party from former councillor Tahir Hussain after a Delhi court convicted him in the 2020 murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the northeast Delhi riots.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Responding to a post on X by BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya highlighting Hussain&#8217;s conviction, Kejriwal wrote, &#8220;We expelled him from AAP long long back. Didn&#8217;t he join one of chanda chor party&#8217;s sister organization?&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">BJP leaders question AAP<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Kejriwal&#8217;s remarks came hours after Delhi law minister Kapil Mishra questioned the silence of the AAP leadership following Hussain&#8217;s conviction.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Addressing a press conference, Mishra asked, &#8220;Why are Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh silent after the conviction? Why have they not come forward and said anything on the matter?&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia, while addressing a press conference earlier today, also targeted Kejriwal. He said, &#8220;Even today, Arvind Kejriwal is protecting Tahir Hussain&#8230; AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan says that the Court order is unfortunate&#8230; Is this not vote bank politics?&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>He further adds, &#8220;An atmosphere was created by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi that Muslims&#8217; citizenship would be taken away because of this. <!-- -->Today, I will ask them how many Muslims in India have lost their citizenship? &#8230;&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>IB officer Ankit Sharma went missing after leaving his home during the communal violence in northeast Delhi. His body was later recovered from a drain near the Chand Bagh area.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>The riots, which broke out amid protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), claimed 53 lives and left hundreds injured.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/expelled-him-from-aap-long-back-how-kejriwal-reacted-to-tahir-hussains-conviction\/articleshow\/132385884.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kejriwal reacts to Tahir Hussain&#8217;s conviction (ANI image on right) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday distanced the party from former councillor Tahir Hussain after a Delhi court convicted him in the 2020 murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the northeast Delhi riots.Responding to a post on X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}