Last Update: April 14, 2023, 10:34 PM IST
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (R) and AAP leader Manish Sisodia.(File photo/PTI)
According to CBI sources, there are allegations that the money raised by AAP was suspected to be pumped in for election purposes by twisting the policy in favor of some liquor dealers and the South lobby, which is part of the money transaction. as under investigation.
The BJP on Friday stepped up its attack on AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of being the “mastermind” of the alleged liquor policy scam. The CBI had summoned him on April 16 for questioning in the case.
According to CBI sources, there are allegations that the funds raised by the AAP for electoral purposes were suspected to have been pumped in by twisting the policy in favor of some liquor dealers and the South lobby, as part of the money trail. is under investigation.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva told a press conference that the day is not far when “three friends” who miss each other – Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain – will sit in the same barrack of Tihar Jail.
Sachdeva said, “The Delhi BJP has always been saying that Kejriwal is the mastermind of the liquor scam, in which his minister Manish Sisodia is in jail. Kejriwal is directly involved in the scam as the excise policy was approved by the cabinet headed by him.” ” Alleged.
He claimed that the Kejriwal government had harmed the revenue of Delhi by bringing the excise policy and also harmed the society. The Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 was scrapped by the Kejriwal government in July 2022 soon after LG VK Saxena recommended a CBI inquiry into alleged irregularities in its implementation. The CBI had in February this year arrested former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, who also held the excise portfolio in the Kejriwal government.
Satyendar Jain, a former minister in the Kejriwal government, has also been in jail for nearly a year after being arrested by the ED in a money laundering case.
The AAP government has termed the probe into the excise policy by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as “a move by the Modi government to obstruct the good work of the Delhi government in health and education”.
Sachdeva said the investigation in the liquor scam case has now reached its crucial stage and the day is not far when Kejriwal will visit Tihar along with Sisodia and Jain.
BJP MP Parvesh Verma asked why the AAP government paid huge fees to lawyers for its defense in courts if it had done nothing wrong.
Verma questioned how Kejriwal could escape responsibility when Sisodia, who was his deputy, is in jail over alleged irregularities in a policy approved by his own cabinet.
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