New Delhi: The Central government today backed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying he won't be resigning and there won't be any Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe against him over alleged financial irregularities in DDCA when he headed it from 1999 to 2013.
Speaking to media outside the Parliament, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said that there was no need for him (Jaitley) to resign as he had nothing wrong.
"I don't understand the relation of the DDCA and Parliament. There is no question of Finance Minister's resignation because he has not done anything wrong," Naidu said.
"They are taking up some of the local issues and trying to make a controversy. This is an absurd issue no relevance at all," Naidu added.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also backed the Finance Minister saying opposition parties are levelling allegations against others to hide their own wrongdoing.
"Those who are demanding a JPC on a false allegation, I want to inform them that the JPC won't be formed. There is no question of Arun Jaitley's resignation, he won't resign," Naqvi said.
The Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are demanding resignation of Jaitley and formation of a JPC to look into financial irregularities in the DDCA, Delhi's cricket club.
The demand of Jaitley's resignation gained momentum after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the CBI searched the office of his principal secretary with the intention of acquiring documents relating to an inquiry conducted into the alleged financial irregularities of the DDCA, the cricket association of which Arun Jaitley was president from December 1999 to 2013.
