New Delhi: Faced with allegations of receiving funds from ‘dubious' companies, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will today move the Supreme Court demanding a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into funding of all three major political parties in Delhi polls -- BJP, Congress, AAP.
The party will today file a petition in the top court seeking direction to the Central government to constitute a Supreme Court-monitored SIT to look into the issue.
AAP leader Yogendra Yadav on Monday night said that the party is ready to face any action if found guilty and also challenged the government to probe the allegations by any central investigating agency including the CBI and Enforcement Directorate.
Asserting that it adopted ‘total transparency' in its funding, Yadav accused the BJP of attempting to influence the voters ahead of February 7 polls by labelling false allegations.
He was responding to allegations by AAP Volunteer Action Manch (AVAM), a breakaway group of the AAP, which accused the Kejriwal-led party of receiving Rs 2 crores last year through four bogus companies.
"AAP demands constitution of an SIT to probe funding of all three main political parties (AAP, Congress and BJP). The SIT should be monitored by the Supreme Court as we already know how the government can manipulate a probe," he said while daring the parties to disclose their fundings.
Yadav said that if AAP had anything to hide, it would not have put the funding details on its website.
"Strangely instead of inquiring against AAP, the BJP ministers are making allegations even after sitting on the files for eight months," Yadav said, apparently referring to the eight-month long tenure of the Narendra Modi government.
"Ahead of last assembly polls in 2013, the BJP had brought out a CD which turned out to be false later. They do not allow politics of honesty. BJP today knows it does not have the courage to stand before the public. That is why they are adopting such measures," Yadav further said.
When asked about midnight timing of realisation of the cheques into AAP's account, he said, “It was done as per an automated software which updates credit of all the cheques submitted at a particular time of each day.”
