New Delhi, Jan 23 (UNI) The Congress on Thursday while calling the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) an ‘Alcohol Affected Party (AAP)’ alleged that both Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia destroyed Delhi through a liquor scam.
Addressing a press conference at the DPCC office here party spokesperson Pawan Khera along with Delhi Congress Chief Devender Yadav played an audio clip of sitting AAP MLA Narela Sharad Chauhan, who has been again fielded from the same Assembly segment, which exposed the involvement of Kejriwal and Sisodia in the liquor scam.
Khera alleged, “It has never happened in the history of India that a Chief Minister has committed liquor scam at the national and international level, for which he was jailed before the Supreme Court let him out on bail with strict conditions”.
He alleged that the “Alcohol Affected Party (AAP)” head Arvind Kejriwal, who came to power promising honesty, transparency, and corruption-free governance but did the opposite, was now desperately trying to prove his innocence before the voters of Delhi ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, but the Narela MLA’s audio clip has nailed him and Sisodia for the liquor scam, which has created an unerasable taint on them.
Khera claimed that in the audio clip, the then Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia, who was both Excise and Education Minister, tells the AAP MLA, how the liquor policy was framed at the instance of Kejriwal as the party needed funds to contest elections in Goa, Gujarat and Punjab, and now funds were coming from Punjab for the Delhi Assembly elections.
The Congress leader alleged that only Kejriwal could have made his Excise Minister Sisodia also the Education Minister, and Sisodia drove the unemployed youth into liquor addiction with his “one bottle free for one bottle purchased” policy.
Meanwhile, Devender Yadav said that the Narela MLA’s expose against Sisodia and Kejriwal only showed social decline under the AAP Government.
He said that Congress will expose the corruption and misdoings of the AAP leadership over the past 10 years before the people and publicise the five Congress guarantees ahead of the assembly elections.
Yadav claimed that the CAG report on the liquor scam observed that the liquor scam caused loss of over Rs 2000 crore of tax payers’ money in the liquor deal.
He said that the voters have decided to free Delhi from Kejriwal’s corruption by voting Congress to power in the February 5 Assembly elections.
