Hardeep Puri compares Sunita Kejriwal to Rabri Devi, suggests Delhi CM's wife preparing to assume office

New Delhi: In a controversial statement, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday likened Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife to former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, suggesting she may be preparing to assume her husband's position.

"The madam you are naming is perhaps preparing to hold the post as Rabri Devi did in Bihar," the senior BJP leader told reporters here at the inauguration of the Delhi BJP's election office.

The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs was responding to a question about AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita.

Earlier in the day, Sunita Kejriwal launched a WhatsApp campaign, urging people to support her husband, who is in ED custody in an excise policy-linked money-laundering case.

In a digital media briefing, Sunita Kejriwal said her husband has challenged the "most corrupt and dictatorial forces" in the country and asked people to support him through their blessings and prayers.

Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21 in an alleged money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy for Delhi. A court on Thursday extended his ED custody till April 1.