Kirti Azad to move court against govt, Arun Jaitley, CBI

Suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad on Thursday dragged the Modi government into his campaign against alleged corruption in DDCA and said he will move court against it besides finance minister Arun Jaitley, claiming that the CBI remains a “caged parrot”.

At a press conference here, he also released a letter written by him to Mr Jaitley in September last in which he alleged that the senior BJP leader played a “nefarious role” in messing up the DDCA and Hockey India.

“The day is not far when you will have to be answerable for all the loot that took place right under your charge... While cricket went to the dogs in your regime, only your trusted friends prospered,” he wrote on September 13.

Mr Jaitley has denied all the charges and filed a civil and criminal defamation case against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders for their similar accusations against him.

Keeping up his attack on Mr Jaitley, Mr Azad today suggested his role in a “mysterious” mail sent to the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) office-bearers about re-appointing a “favourite” auditor and filing of a defamation case against him and Kejriwal.

“Like always there are outsiders in ‘non-executive roles’ without any accountability who keep advising DDCA office-bearers how to run it,” he told the media taking a swipe at Mr Jaitley.