A Congress delegation led by state unit president Ajay Maken meets ACB chief Mukesh Kumar Meena to file a complaint against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)
A Congress delegation led by state unit president Ajay Maken meets ACB chief Mukesh Kumar Meena to file a complaint against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)
A delegation of the Delhi Congress unit under the leadership of president Ajay Maken on Monday met the Delhi anti-corruption branch chief Mukesh Meena and filed a complaint against ex/serving ministers and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal into allegations of corruption and impropriety in the purchase of sugar, onions, water and the distribution of tickets to AAP candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections.
The party has requested to inquire into the complicity of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, directly and indirectly, in these actions of corruption. The party has also requested the ACB chief to file an FIR against Mr Kejriwal and his former and present ministers for their alleged roles in corruption.
Mr Maken said the ACB chief was apprised of four instances of corruption and was asked to probe these alleged corruption charges.
The first instance involved the purchase of 101,000 quintal sugar between February 10 and September from Sainik Food Pvt. Ltd. at a cost of '3,390 per quintal and Doctor Frozen Food India Pvt. Ltd. at a cost of '3087 quintal for which the AAP government in Delhi shelled out '32.99 crore, Mr Maken said.
He also said that these were extraordinarily high prices on the basis of the “Commodity Profile for Sugar for September 2015” (Annexure III attached) because the wholesale prices never went above '2,500 per quintal and buying sugar directly from the mills at an appropriate time would have cost the government much less.
The minister in-charge of the food and civil supplies department, who was later removed for corruption, should be probed as he had signed the files and there can be more instances of corruption that need to be probed too, he claimed.
The second issue involved the purchase of water by the Delhi Jal Board in which a Hyderabad-based company was given the contract at a higher rate.
The third issue raised by the Congress was the irregularities involved in the purchase of onions and issuing/creating advertisements by the Delhi government.
The fourth issue was the alleged corruption in the distribution of Assembly tickets.
