After Arvind Kejriwal, AAP leader Manish Sisodia wrote to Delhi High Court’s Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Tuesday, conveying that he too will go unrepresented before her court in the alleged liquor excise policy scam.

Stating that “there is no path left except Satyagraha” and claiming that he does not “expect justice”, Sisodia said, “No lawyer will appear on my behalf either. Your children’s future is in the hands of (Solicitor General of India) Tushar Mehta.”

In a similar proclamation, AAP’s national convenor and the former Delhi CM Kejriwal had written to Justice Sharma, saying that he will “neither appear in person nor through a lawyer before her” in the excise policy case.

“I have lost hope of getting justice from Justice Swarana Kanta. Therefore, I have decided to follow the path of Satyagraha as shown by Mahatma Gandhi,” he said in his letter yesterday.

Kejriwal primarily reiterated his apprehension regarding Justice Sharma’s “public association with the RSS’s legal front, Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad” and pointed out Justice Sharma’s children are on the Union of India’s panels of advocates and are assigned cases by Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta.

Kejriwal and Sisodia are parties in CBI’s revision plea, challenging their discharge in the alleged liquor policy scam case that Justice Sharma is hearing. Justice Sharma last week refused to recuse herself from hearing CBI’s plea.

Flagging his concerns, Sisodia has said, “My concern, too, much like Mr. Kejriwal’s, is not born out of hostility to the court. It is born of a deep unease that, if I continue to participate despite these circumstances, I would be acting against my own conscience too while pretending before my fellow countrymen that all doubts stand resolved.”

“…for reasons substantially aligned with those set out by Mr Arvind Kejriwal in his letter to you, I respectfully state that I too shall not participate in further proceedings in this matter before this Hon’ble Court, whether personally or through counsel,” he added.

The communications by Kejriwal and Sisodia come days after Justice Sharma refused to recuse from hearing the case despite the accused raising apprehensions of bias and conflict of interest.