Vijender Gupta, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly, termed Mishra’s allegation as “baseless” and sought to know why Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had sat upon the report of a fact-finding panel formed by the Water Minister for 11 months.
Mishra claimed that there are some leaders in the BJP who want to “protect” Dikshit.“BJP is shielding Sheila Dikshit in the water scam which runs into Rs 400 crore. We had registered three FIRs against her in corruption cases around one-and-a-half years ago, but why BJP is still silent on
Anti-Corruption Branch’s inaction on those cases,” Mishra told reporters here.
Responding to BJP’s demand to cancel the agreement with a company inked by the Sheila Dikshit government in 2012, the minister said the move would only affect water supply.
Meanwhile, the former Delhi Chief Minister on Friday rubbished as “politically motivated” allegations linking her to the water tanker scam, a day after LG Najeeb Jung ordered a probe into it by Delhi government’s Anti Corruption Branch.
The Congress veteran also questioned the timing of the probe saying it was ordered when preparations for crucial polls in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh were picking up momentum.
She also suggested that Jung may have been under political pressure to order probe into the case pointing that he was sitting on so many other recommendations of the AAP government.