PM Modi offers water to AAP MP protesting against CBI raids

Trinamool Congress on Wednesday batted for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Lok Sabha and hit out at the government over the Central Bureau of Investigation raids on his principal secretary’s office alleging that the agency had become Gujarat Bureau of Investigation (GBI) under the Modi government. “Modi is a coward and psychopath”, he said, sparking an angry condemnation from a furious BJP which demanded an apology from the Chief Minister for his “disgraceful” remarks.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said the Delhi government and the AAP were not scared of any investigation.

Kumar was quizzed by the CBI sleuths after the searches.

Kumar has been booked under 120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy), and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct etc) for allegedly favouring a private company in five contracts worth Rs 9.5 crore during 2007-14.

“The allegations against Kumar were raised by Ashish Joshi, former Member Secretary, Delhi Dialogue Commission”, the CBI said.

The Delhi chief minister reiterated that he was not afraid of the Prime Minister, who he held responsible for the raids on the Delhi secretariat.

Insisting that the Delhi CM has not been raided, he said, “No wrong has been done. If the raid was not about the chief minister’s present term, why was the register seized”, Manish Sisodia asked. “Your actions are as bad as my language”. You have no idea what I’m made of. They’re telling me I didn’t mind my language, my language may be bad because I hail from village near Hisar, what about you?

He pointed fingers at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who was the president of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) for some time. Kejriwal added, “My own office files are being looked into to get some evidence against me”.

Mr Sisodia alleged that Parliament was taken for a ride by Jaitley.

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