Aam Aadmi Party’s rebel leader Kapil Mishra on Sunday raised fresh allegations against the party, saying that it fudged the donation proof submitted to the Election Commission. Just minutes after the “expose”, Mr. Mishra fainted and was taken to the hospital.
Addressing the media, Mr. Mishra said the AAP had not only lied about its financial condition to the people of this country but also to the party workers, who kept believing the party convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s word that they did not have enough money to even fight the elections.
He also claimed that the party converted its black money into white through shell companies, and all of this happened with Mr. Kejriwal’s consent. He said that close associates of Delhi’s CM were running these shell companies under fake names.
He charged AAP MLA Shiv Charan Goyal with having a major role in managing these shell companies for the party and also accused another MLA Naresh Yadav’s wife, Priti Yadav, of having invested in these alleged fake companies.
“ Ab yeh spasht hai, Kejriwal bhrasht hai (Now it is clear that Kejriwal is corrupt),” he said. Revealing documents of the alleged donation scam, Mr. Mishra said the AAP had over ₹45 crore in its bank account during 2013-2014, but in its declaration to the EC it had showed an income of only around ₹9 crore.
Showing two cheques, he said ₹35 crore each from two shell firms were used for converting black money during demonetisation. “If now Arvind Kejriwal, you do not resign from your position then I will drag you by your collar and put you in Tihar Jail,” he said.
Mr. Mishra, who was ousted as Delhi’s Water and Tourism Minister, had been on a hunger strike seeking Mr. Kejriwal’s clarification to his charges of corruption.
He had demanded that Mr. Kejriwal give details of the foreign trips made by five of his ‘close associates’, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha, Durgesh Pathak, Ashish Khetan and Satyendar Jain.
Doctors said Mr. Mishra was suffering from mild dehydration and weakness.
