Hitting back at AAP after it launched a fresh attack on Arun Jaitley, the BJP on Friday alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had become a “champion of lies” from a self-appointed champion against corruption and was “abusing” everybody to save his “corrupt” colleagues.
The BJP dismissed as “false and foolish” five questions posed to the Finance Minister by AAP leader Ashutosh and accused AAP of using “diversionary tactic” to deflect attention from the corruption charges against Mr. Kejriwal’s principal secretary.
The allegations levelled by AAP are old charges already countered by Mr. Jaitley and DDCA, Delhi’s cricket body.
“Jaitley has been in public life for longer than the age of Mr. Kejriwal and his integrity has never been in question. Kejriwal and his party have been levelling such false and foolish charges just to save a corrupt officer,” BJP media cell in-charge Shrikant Sharma said, wondering why AAP was going to such lengths to save an officer.
Mr. Kejriwal is “abusing” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Jaitley and is attacking media, he said.
Mr. Sharma alleged that Mr. Kejriwal has always defended his colleagues found on the wrong side of law and recalled how he had protected former Delhi Law ministers Jitender Singh Tomar and Somnath Bharti, who have faced charges of forging certificate and domestic violence respectively and were arrested.
“Kejriwal was a self appointed champion against corruption. In power, he has become a champion of lies,” he said, adding that in his frustration, Mr. Kejriwal was also targeting media.
Calling Mr. Jaitley a “master of half truth and beautiful lies”, Mr. Ashutosh had made certain fresh allegations against him and said his comments that there was no specific charges against him was “misleading”.
‘ Allegations are baseless, AAP is shooting in the dark’
Hockey India president Narinder rubbished Aam Admi Party’s accusation that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had put pressure on ONGC to give an amount of Rs 5 crore to the national federation, terming the allegation as “baseless”.
“The allegations are baseless. They (AAP) are shooting in the dark. I won’t like to comment any further on this topic right now. But when the appropriate time comes I will address the media with proof,” Batra told PTI .
Mr. Ashutosh accused Mr. Jaitley of putting pressure on ONGC to give an amount of Rs. 5 crore to Hockey India and also sought to know the reason behind the grant.
In fresh tirade against Mr. Jaitley relating to allegations of corruption in Delhi’s cricket body DDCA under his watch, the AAP leader also asked the Union Finance Minister to disclose his close relationship with Batra.
