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New Delhi: Following Rahul Gandhi’s sharp attack on AAP, Congress leader Ajay Maken on Monday accused Arvind Keijriwal and Manish Sisodia for illegally being involved in corruption in the liquor policy case.
Maken who is MP and AICC treasurer told reporters that the Congress has launched strong attacks in the wake of the CAG report which explains “how this corruption took place”.
The sharp jibes by leaders of two parties against each other have caused some surprise in political circles as both Congress and AAP are part of the INDIA bloc and had fought Lok Sabha polls together in Delhi and Haryana last year.
Asked about the sharp jibes of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against Kejriwal in the recent past, Maken said “it should not be called a personal attack”.
He said the Supreme Court, while giving bail to Kejriwal in the liquor policy case, has not exonerated him.
“Why do you call it a personalized attack? We’ve been talking about issues. We’ve been talking about various issues pertaining to the public so it’s not a personal attack. When we talk about corruption, you may say it is a personal attack on Kejriwal or Manish Sisodia because they were involved in corruption. The Supreme Court also, while giving bail to Kejriwal, has not exonerated him,” Maken said.
“The Supreme Court specifically said that he couldn’t enter into the Secretariat building, he couldn’t call any officers, he couldn’t sign on any of the files, which means that the Supreme Court also Prima facie believes that something wrong has happened. So it’s not a personal attack and imagine a party which was formed to curb corruption, which was formed to bring in the Lokpal Bill and that party, the leaders themselves are caught taking bribes and spending money, corruption money on elections. So this is very strange and this is what we are talking about,” he added.
He was asked why Rahul Gandhi had chosen to attack Arvind Kejriwal now and why did he wait all these months.
Maken, a strong critic of Kejriwal, also took ‘Sheeshmahal’ jibe at former Delhi CM and said the CAG report explains “liquor scam”.
“There is something new which has happened and that something new is the CAG report which has just come out, which they were sitting upon. So the CAG report clearly explains how this corruption took place. It explains about the ‘Sheeshmahal’. It explains about the liquor scam. This is something which has just happened now and which has opened eyes for everyone,” Maken said.
“I think the CAG report is a new development, and it was on the CAG report’s basis only that AAP used to attack the Congress party when we were in power in 2012-13. Now again when the CAG report indicates wrongdoings of the Aam Aadmi Party government then we all have every right based on that CAG report to criticize the government,” he added.
