New Delhi: In possibly his sharpest attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi so far, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded his resignation over the CBI raid on the office of his Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar on December 15.
With politics in Delhi getting uglier by the day, Kejriwal claimed that the memory of losing elections in Delhi still haunted the prime minister that and his “blood boils hearing my name.”
Drawing comparisons with the alleged acts of corruption by BJP leaders, Kejriwal dared Modi to act against Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his Rajasthan counterpart Vasundhara Raje and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Kejriwal also defended Rajendra Kumar against allegations of graft committed in his official capacity under the erstwhile Sheila Dikshit government and said termed the raids as a “black day”.
“He's being mentally harassed. CBI has got nothing against him in the last eight days. If I can remove my minister and babu for committing corruption, it is also my duty to protect honest officers,” he said speaking during a one-day special session of the Assembly which also passed a resolution to constitute a Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged corruption in DDCA.
Kumar was seated in the officers' gallery of the Assembly during the proceedings. “Prime Minister should be ashamed of himself” over the raids, Kejriwal said, and went on to take a series of jibes at Modi over “Rs 10 lakh suit” and foreign trips.
“He is fulfilling his dreams now as earlier he did not get a visa. Delhi is all right whenever he is out of the city. Whenever he's back everything goes haywire,” Kejriwal said.
“I seek the Prime Minister's resignation for conducting such a flop raid and for misusing the CBI. If he uses the CBI to get any file then the country will have no democracy left. Tomorrow there can be raids on any Chief Minister. This is dangerous for the country's federal structure,” Kejriwal said.
The Chief Minister, against whom Jaitley has filed both civil and criminal defamation suits, further alleged that the CBI was specifically looking for a file “containing a note” with “incriminating” details.
Kejriwal further claimed that a DDCA whistleblower had confided in him of Jaitley having assured DDCA officials not to worry about the SFIO as he would get it compounded.
“He (Jaitley) said that he will ensure quashing of cases that come to Delhi police and, if AAP sets up a commission of inquiry, he will get it null and void through ‘our special man' LG,” the Delhi CM said.
( With PTI Inputs)
