Continuing his charges against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Friday alleged the former had opposed demonetisation as he was connected to hawala operatives.
Referring to his earlier allegation of Mr Kejriwal having received ₹2 crore in donations and east Delhi businessman Mukesh Kumar’s press meet on Thursday where he said he had donated the amount through four of “his companies registered in Delhi”, Mr. Mishra said Mr. Kejriwal was using Mr. Kumar as a dummy who is making false claims of having made contributions to the party.
“I donated the money to AAP because I thought AAP has come into politics to serve the poor. I have never met Arvind Kejriwal,” Mr. Kumar said in a video that was uploaded on Twitter and was also retweeted by Mr. Kejriwal.
“This is all an elaborate ploy to launder money to convert black money into white,” Mr. Mishra said, adding that everything happened with the full knowledge of Mr. Kejriwal.
On May 14, Mishra alleged that ₹2 crore through four cheques of over ₹50 lakh each was transferred to AAP through four shell companies.
‘Donations concealed’
On May 14, Mr. Mishra alleged that AAP leaders close to Mr. Kejriwal concealed donations from the public, lied to the Election Commission (EC) and laundered money using 16 shell companies.
The AAP has termed these claims as “baseless” with senior leader Sanjay Singh saying that the BJP and Mr. Mishra were working by the principal that, “if you tell a lie a thousand times then it becomes the truth.”
He said that the AAP has followed all the rules of accepting donations through proper channels. “All donations have been accepted via bank transactions and not in cash. We have no black money. All of it is declared,” Singh said. He said if there were so many cases against the AAP why would the BJP spare them till now?“These are people who have not even spared Somnath Bharti’s dog. They have been picking up irrelevant issues to target us,” he said.
