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AAP sweeps Mishra out, Kejriwal says 'truth will prevail'; special assembly session today

Ousted min alleges AAP chief shielded ex-CM Dikshit in water tanker scam

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Sacked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Kapil Mishra was suspended from the primary membership of the party on Monday, hours after he accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of shielding his predecessor Sheila Dikshit in the Rs 400-crore water tanker scam.

Mishra dared Kejriwal to expel him after he targeted the latter on Sunday, alleging that the CM accepted a bribe of Rs 2 crore from Health and Public Works department minister Satyendar Jain.

The decision to suspend Mishra was taken by the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) after a meeting on Monday evening. The matter will be investigated by an internal committee.

"I have shared all evidence related to the water tanker scam with the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) today. Also, I told them how Kejriwal, and two other people — Ashish Talwar and Vaibhav Patel —influenced the scam probe. The government also tried to shield Sheila Dikshit time and again," said Mishra.

Meanwhile, late on Monday night, Kejriwal broke his silence on the issue and tweeted, "The truth will win and the Delhi government will hold a special assembly session on Tuesday."

The Kejriwal-led Delhi government complained to the ACB in 2015 about the alleged siphoning off Rs 400 crore as the Sheila Dikshit government hired private water tankers citing water scarcity that never existed.

Mishra, as Water Minister, headed a five-member committee that submitted a report implicating Dikshit in the scam.

Mishra became AAP's fourth minister to be sacked after Jitendra Singh Tomar, Asim Ahmed Khan, and Sandeep Kumar.

ACB chief MK Meena said that the agency will look into the complaint made by Mishra. He, however, has not submitted any evidence pertaining to the Rs 2 crore bribery allegation he levelled against Kejriwal, Meena said.

While the party alleged that a "big conspiracy" was being hatched against it by the BJP through Mishra, Jain stood firm and announced to file a defamation case against the 36-year-oparty's Karawal Nagar MLA. "He has lost his mental balance. There is a limit to lying. I was not present at the CM's residence on Friday. I can even prove it," Jain said.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh also presented a letter written by Mishra to the ACB in September 2016, blaming the agency for trying to target Kejriwal instead of former CM Sheila Dikshit in the alleged water tanker scam, even as his name was not mentioned anywhere in the report made by Mishra himself. "Now, he is repeating what the BJP-run central government has been trying to allege. He is clearly voicing the BJP," Singh said.

Mishra, however, slammed the party attempts of labeling him as a "BJP agent". "If anyone within the AAP had attacked the BJP on issues such as Kashmir, it was me. I will never join the BJP, I am not even in talks with any BJP leaders. If I raise doubts, you call me a BJP agent. What about those who raise questions about corruption, are they all BJP agents?" he said.

 

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