Amlendu Bhushan Khan
New Delhi: Aam Admi Party suspended ex minister Kapil Mishra agin attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said today that he will approach the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and lodge an FIR tomorrow. 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.
“Satyendar Jain told me in a private conversation that he’d settled a Rs 50 crore land deal for a 7-acre farmhouse in Chhattarpur in favour of Kejriwal’s brother-in-law’s Bansal family. Being a PWD minister, he also fudged bills up to Rs 10 crore in the department to benefit Kejriwal’s relative,” he alleged.
Mishra further said that he has sought an appointment with the CBI on Tuesday to register a complaint, and will ensure an FIR is filed in this regard.
The AAP lawmaker stood by his decision not to quit the party and dismissed the charges that he was a BJP agent bent on disrupting the party.
“If there’s any person in AAP who has consistently spoken against the BJP and Modi ji’s policies actions, it is I. I will never join the BJP, I don’t have any ties to any BJP leader… nor will I ever leave the AAP,” Mishra declared.
Mishra, who was sacked as minister on Saturday, reiterated his demand for a lie detector test on his allegations that he was an eyewitness to the Rs 2 crore exchanging hands between Kejriwal and Jain. He said that a lie detector test be conducted on all three.
What said Kejriwal
“Truth will triumph,” Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said, ahead of the special session of the Delhi Assembly tomorrow in the wake of corruption charges levelled against him by sacked AAP minister Kapil Mishra.
“Truth will triumph. Its beginning will be made during the special session of the Delhi Assembly tomorrow,” Kejriwal tweeted late this evening on the graft charges against him by Mishra that has led to turmoil in the Aam Aadmi Party.
The one-day special session is expected to be a stormy affair as the opposition BJP plans to come down hard on the AAP government over Mishra’s graft charges.
The ruling AAP will also seek to corner the BJP and its government at the Centre over alleged EVM manipulation.
AAP sources hinted that the revelations which are being planned by the party tomorrow will be targeted at the BJP.
The Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the AAP today suspended Mishra from the party’s primary membership after he made 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.
Cong women wing activists seek Kejriwal’s resignation
Scores of activists of the women wing of the Congress today staged a protest near the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, demanding his resignation over allegations levelled against him by sacked minister Kapil Mishra.
Raising slogans against the AAP government and Kejriwal, the protesters marched towards the chief minister’s residence when they were stopped by the police.
“Kejriwal who became the Delhi CM by making the promise of fighting corruption has no moral right to continue and should resign immediately in the wake of allegations by his once favourite cabinet colleague,” said acting president of the Delhi Mahila Congress Sai Anamika.
Kejriwal should follow the examples of politicians who resigned in the wake of allegations levelled against them, she said.
Delhi Mahila Congress in-charge Netta D’Souza and other leaders took part in the protest.
One-day special session of Delhi Assembly to be stormy
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 Aam Aadmi Party 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 MHA’s 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.
