Kejriwal breaks silence on Kapil Mishra's allegations: Truth will win

A day after sacked AAP minister Kapil Mishra accused him of corruption, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today tweeted that "truth" would win.

"Truth will triumph. Its beginning will be made during the special session of the Delhi Assembly tomorrow," Kejriwal wrote.

Mishra on Sunday said he saw Kejriwal - the AAP's national convenor - accept a bribe of Rs 2 crore from Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain. Although the AAP has defender its leader, Kejriwal himself hadn't commented on the issue until now.

In fact, in Kejriwal's only other recent Twitter message, he congratulated France's President-elect Emmanuel Macron on his election victory.

MISHRA SUSPENDED FROM PARTY

The Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the AAP today suspended Mishra from the party's primary membership after he levelled graft charges against Kejriwal.

Mishra dared the AAP to oust him from the party even as he fired a fresh salvo at Kejriwal, saying a Rs 50 crore deal was arranged for the AAP chief's brother-in-law.

Asserting that a bogus bill amounting to Rs 10 crore was made to favour Kejriwal's brother-in-law, Mishra



also alleged that during the Punjab polls, there was massive corruption by AAP in ticket distribution, and supplying of liquor by party members.

STORMY SESSION EXPECTED

The one-day special session of the Delhi Assembly scheduled tomorrow is expected to be a stormy affair as the opposition BJP plans to come down hard on the AAP government over former minister Kapil Mishra's graft charges against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The ruling AAP will also seek to corner the BJP and its government at the Centre over alleged EVM manipulation.

AAP MLAs are also expected to raise the recent CBI raid at the Delhi Secretariat and issuance of a notice to the Aam Aadmi Party by the Centre to furnish details of its overseas funding during the session.

The ruling party had already termed the CBI raid and MHAs notice to AAP as "political vendetta" by the BJP-led central government.

On its part, the BJP, whose strength of MLAs has been increased from three to four in the 70-member Assembly after it won the Rajouri Garden bypoll last month, will try to corner the AAP government on governance and other issues.