‘Possible that Kejriwal informed CBI about Sisodia’, says BJP on Excise Policy scam

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New
Delhi,
Aug
19:
The
BJP
on
Friday
hit
out
at
the
AAP
government
following
raids
by
CBI
at
the
residence
of
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Manish
Sisodia
and
other
places
in
Delhi
in
Excise
Policy
scam.

Talking
to
reporters,
Senior
party
leader
Dr
Harsh
Vardhan
accused
Arvind
Kejriwal
government
of
indulging
in
corrupt
practices
under
the
garb
of
excise
policy.
He
said
that
the
corrupt
and
dishonest
Arvind
Kejriwal
government
and
Minister
has
no
right
to
continue
in
government
after
the
CBI
carried
out
searches
in
Excise
Policy
scam.
He
also
demanded
that
the
corrupt
Ministers
of
Delhi
should
step
down.

Delhi
BJP
Unit
Chief
Adesh
Gupta
alleged
that
Sisodia
colluded
with
liquor
mafia
leading
to
loss
of
huge
revenue
to
exchequer.

Excise
policy
case:
CBI
has
order
from
top
to
hassle
us,
alleges
Kejriwal

Attacking
the
AAP,
BJP
MP
Gautam
Gambhir
said,
“When
you
have
looted
crores
and
crores
of
taxpayers’ money
and
made
a
liquor
policy
sitting
with
the
liquor
mafia,
your
place
is
not
outside
but
in
jail.”
He
also
denied
the
AAP’s
charge
that
the
CBI
raids
against
Manish
Sisodia
are
politically
motivated.

“If
they
were
so
clean,
they
should
have
continued
with
the
liquor
policy.
Why
did
they
backtrack?
Because
they
knew
they
were
going
to
get
exposed.”
said
Gambhir.

Earlier
in
the
day,
the
CBI
raided
the
home
of
Delhi
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Manish
Sisodia
and
20
other
locations
in
connection
with
the
Delhi
Excise
Policy,
escalating
tensions
between
the
government
and
the
Aam
Aadmi
Party
which
alleged
the
agency
was
acting
on
orders
“from
above”.

The
searches
at
the
AAP
leader’s
home,
the
residence
of
IAS
officer
and
former
excise
commissioner
Arava
Gopi
Krishna
and
19
other
places
came
after
the
CBI
registered
an
FIR
for
alleged
irregularities
in
the
formulation
and
execution
of
the
Delhi
Excise
Policy
brought
out
in
November
last
year.

The
searches
covered
seven
states
and
union
territories.
The
premises
of
two
other
public
servants
were
also
searched,
the
officials
said.

Amid
CBI
raid,
Kejriwal
launches
missed
call
campaign
to
‘Make
India
No.
1’

As
CBI
teams
fanned
out
across
the
country
and
AAP
supporters
gathered
outside
Sisodia’s
central
Delhi
home,
Chief
Minister
Arvind
Kejriwal
said
there
is
no
need
to
panic
and
the
agency
had
been
“asked
from
above”
to
harass
them.

“Many
obstacles
will
be
created
in
our
path
in
our
mission.
This
is
not
the
first
raid
on
Sisodia,
there
were
raids
in
the
past
too.
There
have
also
been
raids
on
many
of
our
ministers
and
me
also
but
nothing
came
out
of
those
and
nothing
will
come
out
this
time
as
well,”
he
said
at
online
briefing.