Suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad, on Thursday, dragged the Modi government into his campaign against alleged corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) and said he will move court against it and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, claiming that the CBI remains a “caged parrot”.
At a press conference in New Delhi, Azad also released a letter written by him to Jaitley in September last year, in which he alleged that the senior BJP leader played a “nefarious role” in messing up the DDCA and Hockey India.
Azad’s letter to Jaitley, dated September 13, 2015The day is not far when you will have to be answerable for all the loot that took place right under your charge... While cricket went to the dogs in your regime, only your trusted friends prospered.
Jaitley has denied all charges of wrongdoing during his tenure as DDCA chief and has filed a civil and criminal defamation case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders for their similar accusations against him.
Keeping up his attack on Jaitley, Azad today suggested his role in a “mysterious” mail sent to DDCA office-bearers about re-appointing a “favourite” auditor and filing of a defamation case against him and Kejriwal.
The BJP has suspended Azad for his relentless attack on Jaitley, who the party has insisted is a man of highest probity, and served him a showcause notice, asking why he should not be expelled. Even as he targeted Jaitley, Azad claimed that the BJP will revoke his suspension as he had not targeted the party or the government.
The petition will be against the central government, state government and CBI besides current and former officials of DDCA, including Jaitley, and seek the appointment of an independent administrator and time-bound SIT probe into the cricket body’s affairs, Azad said.
Attacking the CBI for its “slow” probe, he said “I do not know when this caged parrot will come out, flap its wings. It seems it will start working when the court acts,” he said. Fake bills were given to Justice Mudgal too, he alleged, adding that it showed how “shameless” DDCA management had become. He claimed that the body made a profit during the match for the first time since 1982.
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