As of now, Kejriwal in his tweet said that the file was read by the CBI; however they left it after his media briefing. Refuting allegations, Mr Jaitley told reporters said the party and state government which are themselves are in the dock are levelling “baseless” charges.
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Kejriwal on Tuesday had claimed the CBI has raided his office in central Delhi and launched a no-holds barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he was resorting to “cowardice”.
In response to Kejriwal’s allegations on raid, Jaitley said, “I can’t answer any vague allegation by anyone without any basis”.
Heightening the unprecedented acrimony, Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia accused the CBI agency of seizing documents “irrelevant” to the probe against Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar.
The CBI said it had searched 14 places in Delhi connected with Kumar, including his residence, and various locations in Uttar Pradesh, and recovered Rs 16 lakh in cash, including Rs 2.4 lakh from Kumar’s residence alone.
AAP alleges that there were financial irregularities when Jaitley was the president of the DDCA or Delhi and District Cricket Association for 13 years till December, 2013.
Anna Hazare questioned the timing of the CBI raid.
The chief minister claimed he was in fact the target and that Kumar was just an excuse.
“The raids have nothing to do with Arvind Kejriwal’s office or his tenure as chief minister”. The CM had also alleged searches were conducted because files pertaining to alleged corruption in DDCA involving Arun Jaitley is with the Delhi CMO.
The Chief Minister who has been locked in a bitter battle with the Centre has accused Modi of playing Politics and also stated that the central government has been using CBI for political vendetta. I want to tell Modi ji, you scared other people through CBI, but you have no idea what Kejriwal is made up of.
CBI sources said that a team of its officials went to the Delhi Secretariat, which houses office of Kejriwal and other ministers in the morning and conducted the search in the third floor of the building.
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Kejriwal says Modi has been attempting to sabotage his government to stem his popularity and destroy his chances of breaking the dominance of India’s two national parties. This is the DDCA file under which Arun Jaitley is getting trapped.
