I want specific reasons for my suspension from BJP: Azad

“I am not colluding with Congress and Aam Aadmi Party”.

BJP had on Wednesday suspended Azad from its primary membership three days after his press conference attacking Jaitley and subsequent acts of defiance both inside and outside Parliament, over alleged irregularities in DDCA.

BJP’s National President Amit Shah had a meeting with the central leadership of the party before issuing an official letter of Azad’s suspension, said reports.

The Parliamentary Board’s communication to Azad said he had been breaching the party’s discipline over the past few months and continued with anti-party activities.

Sources also said that in the meeting, a view gained ground that the message emerging from Azad’s suspension was that a whistleblower was being gagged.

“It is weird how the party has sidelined a person fighting for truth. Thus, I wish that Narendra Modiji intervenes in this issue, goes deeper in it, and then tells me about what I have done wrong, as I need specific answers”, Azad has said. “I have worked honestly for the party but I was branded anti-party”. There has not been single instance or blemish and the party which gave me every opportunity to work. “What anti-party activity have I done?” “Prove what conspiracy I have entered into with Sonia Gandhi”, he added.

The Congress has also been seeking an inquiry into the affairs of DDCA, of which Mr. Jaitley was president for 13 years until 2013. “It is they who have taken up my issue”. “But now scams are taking place and the latest is the cricket scam, and the MP who raised it has been suspended”. “They are a new party”. He was the organising general secretary and I have great regard for him. “I did not take anyone’s name”. I have never targeted Jaitley ji personally. He had followed it up with a statement in the Lok Sabha on Monday, when he had demanded an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), monitored by a Special Investigation Team (SIT), into the allegations. Azad has been punished for battling corruption, he said.

In his first reaction, Azad said it was the party’s loss, not his. Yesterday, BJP suspended the MP for his anti party remarks and his remarks that there was corruption within the DDCA at the time when its Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was its chief. The BJP stands completely exposed today.