New Delhi: AAP leader Kumar Vishwas said "BJP asked Manmohan
Singh to resign over collective responsibility. We demand that PM Modi remove
his corrupt minister,", alleging that, "This scam was about siphoning
off money by creating fake companies between 1999 and 2013 and one year after
that. This went on for 15 years."The ruling BJP has launched a strong counter-attack
against Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party dismissing
as "malicious" its allegation that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
presided over massive corruption in Delhi's cricket body, the DDCA, as its
president.The party and Mr Jaitley accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of
attempting to whip up "political hysteria" to divert attention from
corruption in his office.In a post on Face book, Mr Jaitley said, "Delhi CM Kejriwal seems to
believe in untruth and defamation, delivered in language that borders on
hysteria. No personal allegation was ever made against me nor did I ever feel
the need of contradicting it."He also said, "The Serious Fraud Investigation
Office (SFIO), under the UPA regime, investigated and could not find a shred of
evidence against me."
Union Minister Smriti Irani said at a press conference that "no fraud has
happened" under Mr Jaitley's chairmanship of the Delhi and District
Cricket Association or DDCA and added, "The BJP resolutely stands behind
Arun Jaitley and publicly condemns the malicious intent of AAP to deflect
public attention from a corrupt officer working with Arvind Kejriwal."That attempt, she said, "goes totally against the values of the Anna
Hazare movement," from which Mr Kejriwal political career sprang.Ms
Irani spoke soon after the AAP fielded top leaders to assert that the CBI raid
on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar on Tuesday
was linked to a DDCA file in the Chief Minister's office.
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