CBI raid row: AAP sharpens attack on BJP, demands Jaitley’s resignation

“Jaitley reacted, “(If) They can tell me what is the specific issue, I can answer it. I can’t answer a vague allegation without any basis”. The Congress demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the alleged financial irregularities during Jaitley’s tenure as the DDCA chief.

Kejriwal who accused it of looking information “unrelated” to the probe towards Kumar and claimed that a file referring to DDCA was scrutinised by it.

Social crusader Anna Hazare on Wednesday blamed the BJP government for the raging controversy over the CBI raid but also chided chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for not checking the background of Rajendra Kumar before appointing him as principal secretary.

As AAP’s most vocal Lok Sabha member, Bhagwant Mann raised slogans near Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s podium, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood up and offered him a glass of water. The finance minister had Tuesday dismissed the allegations against him as “rubbish”.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that there has been corruption in Delhi District Cricket Association under Jaitley’s 13 year-long tenure as its president.

A two-member commission set up by the Delhi High Court had earlier revealed lack of transparency at DDCA, a TOI report quoted Maken as saying. Quoting a government reply in Parliament, Maken said the government has “agreed that on the orders of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on September 28, 2012, Registrar of Companies had inspected DDCA and found irregularities against four DDCA officers namely – Sunil Dev, Narender Batra, S P Bansal and C K Khanna”.

Mr Sisodia, who alleged the CBI raided a room where the chief minister’s files and affidavits were kept, stood by his claim and said Parliament was being “misled” by stating “wrong facts”.

“The same agencies are supposed to take action against DDCA for infraction of various rules and norms of the Companies Act and under criminal law”, he said.

He said the investigation by the SFIO had found that the Reconstruction of the Ferozshah Kotla stadium was carried out between 2002 and 2007 which saw an escalation of costs by Rs 90 crore. He said the initial budget was Rs 24 crore but eventually it went up to Rs 114 crore.

Kumar was questioned by the CBI for about seven hours late final night time after the probe company sleuths raided his Delhi Secretariat workplace, triggering a political storm between Delhi authorities and the Centre. AAP leader Ashutosh claimed that BJP MP Kirti Azad had levelled charges of corruption against Mr Jaitley as DDCA chief.

AAP spokesman Deepak Bajpai said the party will hold a press conference on Thursday where it will expose the “massive corruption” in the DDCA.

Kejriwal additionally uploaded picture of a doc itemizing the information allegedly taken away by CBI from Delhi Secretariat throughout its day-lengthy raid yesterday.

In his tweets, Mr Kejriwal also suggested Mr Jaitley was anxious about the Delhi government’s probe into the DDCA’s functioning.