According to reports, the reasons behind the raids at Rajendra Kumar’s office was a complaint by senior bureaucrat Ashish Joshi, who had written to Anti-Corruption Branch chief M.K. Meena, who is now at loggerheads with the Kejriwal government, accusing the bureaucrat of allegedly indulging in corruption.
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The office of Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary was raided by CBI yesterday in a corruption case triggering a fresh face-off between the AAP and Centre and a vicious political slugfest in which the AAP chief lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him “coward” and a “psychopath”. TMC leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay said the raids had perturbed them and rejected Centre’s claim that the CBI was an “independent body”, claiming that the agency could not have acted without the Prime Minister’s knowledge. My own office raided. When someone in the press asked Kejriwal if he had suffered from an easier to explain attack of vertigo, Kejriwal refuted the claim and said, “It is Modi… Modi is a coward and psychopath”.
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Arvind Kejriwal, chief of Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP), addresses his supporters after taking the oath as the new chief minister of Delhi during a swearing-in ceremony at Ramlila ground in New Delhi February 14, 2015.
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CBI today justified its action saying the list of all the files seized will be placed before the court even as it continued questioning Kejriwals’s Principal Secretary in a corruption case.
Kejriwal was referring to Rajendra Kumar, who is the secretary to the Delhi chief minister.
Yogendra Yadav, also a former founding member of the party, called Tuesday’s happenings “a drama”. “It has become fashionable for the Delhi chief minister to quarrel with the central government and take the PM’s name for everything”.
The fresh tussle has pushed on the back burner a war of words in the past few days between the two governments over a railways anti-encroachment drive at a slum cluster in the Capital during which an infant girl was allegedly killed.
“Delhi CM Kejriwal seems to believe in untruth and defamation, delivered in language that borders on hysteria”. Now why couldn’t he wait for his Commission of Inquiry. The CM’s table will have only files he has to look into that day and other documents he requests for.
“There is no need to respond to useless allegations”.
Karti, in his statement, said, “I was informed that they are investigating three firms”. Sisodia said, speaking to reporters in New Delhi.
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The confrontation between the Delhi and federal governments has played out in other ways as well.
