Published: Dec 23, 2015, 12:53 AM (IST)
Edited: Dec 23, 2015, 12:53 AM (IST)
New Delhi: Allegations of corruption against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley are “baseless”, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Udit Raj said on Tuesday. “The allegations are baseless. The entire party [BJP] is with him on the issue,” Udit Raj told reporters. The AAP has alleged massive financial bunglings in the Delhi and District Cricket Association, which Jaitley headed for years. Jaitley has denied the charges. The Delhi government on Tuesday tabled a resolution to set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA). Tabling the resolution, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said gross irregularities had taken place in the DDCA. He said the Delhi assembly was concerned over the “massive corruption” in the cricket body. Delhi High Court issues notice to Arvind Kejriwal over DDCA row
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday came out in support of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying he will come out of the DDCA corruption charges with “flying colours”. “Jaitley will come out with flying colours in the same manner as [BJP leader] L.K. Advani did in the hawala case,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu quoted Modi as telling a BJP parliamentary party meeting. “The Congress tried to implicate Advani in the hawala case but it boomeranged on it,” Modi added. BJP leader Sushil Modi demands disciplinary action against Kirti Azad
The prime minister said the Congress was not able to digest its electoral defeats since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and was raking up manufactured allegations to defame his government. He said the Congress did the same with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Chief Ministers Vasundhara Raje of Rajasthan as well as Shivraj Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh. DDCA treasurer seeks legal action against Kirti Azad
