AAP poses more questions to Arun Jaitley on DDCA issue

Relentless in its attack on Finance MinisterArun Jaitley, the Aam Aadmi Party today posed five queries to him relating to alleged corruption in Delhi’s cricket body DDCA even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal fired fresh salvos at the Modi government claiming it had directed the CBI to “target” the opposition.

Calling Jaitley a “grasp of half fact and delightful lies”, Ashutosh had made sure recent allegations towards him and stated the finance minister’s defence that there was no particular expenses towards him was “deceptive”. “Why was a corporate box given to a company whose director is a relative?” asked AAP leader Ashutosh.

Earlier, Jaitley had maintained the statement on his blog that he had not been personally accused by anyone and that appropriation of funds from DDCA were just minor “irregularities” which had been dealt with. In his tweet, the CM said, “A CBI officer told me yesterday that the CBI has been asked to target all Opposition parties and finish those who don’t fall in line”.

BJP is understood to have told Azad that these are old charges dating back till 2013 when Jaitley headed DDCA and Congress was in power at the Centre as well as in Delhi but nothing came out of them.

The MP from Bihar also appeared to be taking a dig at the Finance Minister over his reported description of him as a “Trojan horse”.

Senior leader Sanjay Singh said, “We had raised specific questions and Jaitley gave vague answers. Later, a DDCA fact-finding committee said that prima facie, it was a case of theft and criminal breach of trust”, he stated.

Sharma alleged that Kejriwal, who got here to workplace by campaigning towards corruption has been defending his colleagues discovered on the improper aspect of regulation and recalled how he had protected former Delhi regulation ministers Jitender Singh Tomar and Somnath Bharti, who’ve confronted costs of forging a certificates and home violence respectively.

“Jaitley has been in public life for longer than the age of Kejriwal and his integrity has never been in question”. “Kejriwal was a self-appointed champion against corruption”.