Opposition BJP and Janata Dal (S) launch frontal attack on Cong govt as insider's claim triggers political storm
The Delhi Congress chief asserted that all these “blatant corruption and misappropriation” of the taxpayers money would have come to light long before the ACB FIR had the BJP government tabled all the pending CAG reports.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched a fresh attack on the Opposition Congress on Monday, accusing the party of institutionalising corruption by using weddings as a means to accept illicit gifts.
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said on Sunday that the AAP would be held accountable for every act of corruption it indulged in during its decade-long rule in the national capital.
People will believe the BJP government’s intentions only when those who indulged in corruption as revealed in the CAG report are held accountable, added Yadav.
Political controversy erupts a day after VB was asked to probe alleged involvement of Cong leader and former Speaker Rana KP Singh in illegal mining.
According to LG office source, the action will be taken against AAP leaders - Saurabh Bhardwaj, Atishi, Durgesh Pathak and Jasmine Shah among others for defamatory and false allegations of corruption by them, attributed to his tenure as KVIC Chairman.
A spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said the accused prepared fake bills of bogus firms and withdrew over Rs 52 lakh meant for ‘tree guards’ by diverting government funds to different bank accounts.
Former forest ministers in the Congress government, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and Sangat Singh Gilzian have already been booked in alleged corruption cases.
In April, she was sentenced to five years in jail in the first corruption case, where she was accused of accepting a bribe of $600,000 and gold from a former chief minister of Yangon city.
