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“To Arrest”: Daring 4 Days After BJP’s “Sting” On Manish Sisodia’s Liquor Policy

September 15, 2022
Bharat Times

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has been raided and named in the CBI case.

New Delhi:

Hours after the BJP launched a “sting operation” claiming the AAP government in Delhi devised its liquor policy to help a select few, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia responded with a challenge.

“The BJP should give this so-called sting to the CBI, which is anyway acting like an outside agency of the party. In the next four days – till Monday – if there is any evidence of corruption in this ‘sting’, the CBI should arrest me. . ,” Mr Sisodia said in response to questions from reporters. “If they don’t do this, it will be proof that this is an attempt by the BJP to overthrow our government. Just an attempt to defame us.”

Manish Sisodia was raided and the CBI named one of the accused after Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor ordered an inquiry into the new excise policy in July. In the same month, the Arvind Kejriwal government withdrew the policy that had come into force in November last year and brought private players into the liquor trade. AAP said the policy was for more revenue “but BJP’s central government failed it”. using lieutenant governor,

The BJP says that the bribe was taken for the contract.

In today’s latest and back-and-forth, the BJP showed a secretly recorded video in which a man – whose name is also in the FIR – is claiming that the Delhi government has deliberately taken small players out of its “conforming” product policy. So that people can be helped. some person. It shared the video – not independently verified by NDTV – on Twitter as well.

BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged, “Bribes of contractors were used for AAP’s election campaign in Goa and Punjab.”

He outlined how Arvind Kejriwal would ask people to “sting” those seeking money illegally and “promised that he would take action”.

He said the “sting” video was already public and was not recorded by the BJP.

Manish Sisodia replied at a press conference nearly an hour later: “Nothing has been found in the raids on my house and bank locker. I urge the CBI to conduct a thorough investigation.” He was originally speaking about the alleged inefficiency of the BJP-run civic bodies in Delhi, but then raised questions.

He reiterated the charge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “using central agencies to intimidate and intimidate the opposition parties”. “We have nothing to hide.”