Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has asked Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena on why he has not yet given permission for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into an alleged ₹6,000 crore scam in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
“You should have ordered a CBI inquiry by now on the basis of the letter I wrote to you two months ago regarding corruption in the MCD. I request you to rise above petty politics and order a CBI inquiry into this matter immediately,” Sisodia said.
Addressing a press conference, AAP’s Delhi civic body election in-charge Durgesh Pathak also asked if Saxena was not able to “muster courage” to order a probe into the alleged scam as some very senior leader of the BJP was involved in it.
There was however no immediate reaction from the LG office to the charges levelled by AAP.
The AAP leader demanded that the LG order a probe into the alleged toll tax scam.
On August 10, Sisodia had written to Saxena and demanded a CBI probe into the alleged toll tax scam worth Rs 6,000 crore in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that the Deputy CM’s letter to the L-G is nothing but a reflection of AAP’s “political frustration”. Kapoor alleged that scams had been unearthed in every department run by the Delhi government.
