Addressing the media, Azad said, “I’m a big fan of PM Narendra Modi and appreciate his efforts to curb corruption but whatever I will say here should not be taken personally”.
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Kirti Azad is scheduled to carry a press convention on Sunday to show largest DDCA corruption.
Video alleges DDCA had hired a laptop and a printer for Rs 16,000 and Rs 3,000 respectively per day.
The former cricketer alleged that the DDCA had given contracts to fake companies, paying them crores of rupees in cash and had fudged auditing.
BJP MP Kirti Azad on Friday stuck to his plan to hold a press conference on Sunday to reveal corrup ion in the DDCA administra ion during the time finance minister Arun Jaitley was president of the cricket body, even as the party leadership asked him not to make any statements on the issue. “Not a Trojan horse but Achilles heel; wait till I unmask the behroopiya (impostor)”, Mr Azad said in a tweet.
Azad presented an audio-video presentation that has been produced by WikiLeaks4India.
The one politically jarring note of Mr. Azad’s stridency apart, the BJP continues to strongly back Mr. Jaitley, saying the AAP’s allegations were aimed at distracting attention from a CBI raid against a key Delhi government official close to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
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Finance Minister Jaitley, headed DDCA for 13 years till 2013, has been accused of corruption by Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party. BJP chief Amit Shah had called him on Saturday to dissuade him. AAP has demanded that Mr Jaitley must resign or be “removed” from the union cabinet to enable an independent probe. In a Facebook post, Mr Jaitley has said, “The Serious Fraud Investigation Office, under the UPA regime, investigated and could not find a shred of evidence against me”.
