Delhi: A day after, sacked Delhi minister Kapil Mishra accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of taking Rs two crore from his Cabinet colleague, he said on Monday that he will go to CBI tomorrow and will officially lodge FIR and be present as a witness.
“Satyendar Jain helped Kejriwal’s relative with a seven-acre farmhouse deal in Chhattarpur,” he alleged.
“Saying I am colluding with BJP is baseless. Everyone knows I have been the most vocal critic of BJP and Modi ji in AAP. I’m fighting against corruption,” Mishra said addressing a press conference.
He challenged AAP leaders to throw him out of the party. “I will not leave AAP. If decisions are made behind the closed doors then I will not accept them. Who will stay in party and who will not will be decided by the people.”
“Let files and documents of all ministers be made public, then we shall see who should be suspended, he said.
Mishra, whose surprise sacking came days after he sided with senior party leader Kumar Vishwas who has been at loggerheads with the AAP leadership, had said, “I saw with my own eyes Satyendar Jain giving Rs 2 crore in cash to Arvind Kejriwal at his residence. When I asked Kejriwal, he said such things happen in politics and it will be revealed later.
He had also told reporters after paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial at Rajghat that Jain, the Health and PWD minister in AAP government, had told him “personally” that he had “settled a land deal of Kejriwal’s relative”.
“Jain personally told me that he had settled a land deal worth Rs 50 crore of Kejriwal’s relative. When I told Kejriwal, he said that it was a lie and asked me to have faith in him,” he had said.
Mishra had claimed that he was removed after he put pressure on the party leaders over matters of “corruption” that have been taking rounds for quite some time.
“I want to ask if it was so, why did not Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia (Deputy Chief Minister) say it earlier. If they were fooling people when they were talking about work done by their government in developing water supply in the city,” the former Delhi Water minister said.
For a long time, talks about different types of “corruption” involving fundings, Punjab elections and Delhi government have been making rounds, he had further said.
On the other hand, Sisodia had said yesterday that the allegations of corruption levelled by Mishra did not merit a response.
“His allegations do not merit a response. He has been sacked due to poor performance. The allegations are so absurd and there are no facts,” he had said.
(With PTI inputs)
Source: Zee News