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PM Modi misusing CBI: Arvind Kejriwal

| | Dec 23, 2015, at 12:15 am
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IBNS) Demanding his resignation, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as he attacked the PM over the issue of CBI raids in his office and the clean chit to Arun Jaitley on his role in cricket administration.
Speaking in Delhi Assembly, Kejriwal said the BJP government is not cooperating with them but could commit something unprecedented by conducting a CBI raid in his office on Dec 15. He said Modi is using CBI to destroy the Opposition. 
 
Defamation cases were filed against Kejriwal and AAP leaders by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over allegations against the latter. 
 
He said even after eight days passed since the raids, he would like to know what they found against him though BJP said it was not aimed at him but his principal secretary.
 
He said the BJP can tomorrow raid the offices of chief ministers of states like Assam or West Bengal or Maharashtra.
 
He said either the PM is travelling abroad in a jet or misusing CBI when in India. 
 
Earlier, throwing his weight behind Arun Jaitley, who is embroiled in DDCA corruption controversy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his Finance Minister will "come through flying colours."

"Arun Jaitley will come through with flying colours in the same manner as L K Advani did in Hawala case," the Prime Minister said at a weekly meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party.

This is Modi's first response to the controversy that has come as a big threat to the BJP.

 Jaitley has been accused by  the Aam Aadmi Party, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, of shielding those guilty in the alleged corruption  in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) which he headed for 13 years.

What compounded the crisis for Jaitley and his party was the attack by  BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad on the issue.  Azad, in a press conference on Sunday,  stopped just short of naming the Finance Minister  in his allegations of corruption in the DDCA and  also challenged Jaitley publicly to sue him too.

 
 
  

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