Training its guns on the finance minister, the Aam Aadmi Party posed more questions to Arun Jaitley, saying it would continue to raise its voice against graft in the state cricket body, alleging corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) during the minister’s tenure.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh alleged that the finance minister has sent a legal notice to him and his colleague Ashutosh “through” Lokesh Sharma, who is managing director of private firm 21st Century Media, and said that they are ready to face one thousand such legal notices and will not be deterred from exposing “corruption” in the DDCA.
Mr Jaitley has strongly rejected the allegations, calling them a propaganda technique of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to deflect attention when he himself was in the “dock” following a CBI raid in Delhi Secretariat.
Addressing a press conference here, Mr Singh accused Mr Jaitley of trying to “suppress” alleged corruption which had taken place in DDCA under his watch by sending legal notice.
On Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party had posed five posers to the minister, saying that they would continue to question him on the alleged corruption in the DDCA.
The AAP leader claimed that they are getting papers pertaining to the DDCA’s alleged corruption from several persons across the country.
Following a CBI raid in Delhi Secretariat in connection with charges against Mr Kejriwal’s principal secretary Rajendra Kumar, the AAP has been claiming that the Central agency carried out the searches to target the AAP chief and was looking for a file relating to alleged graft in the DDCA. Since then, the party has been demanding resignation of Mr Jaitley from the Union Cabinet.
