Calling December 15, when CBI conducted the raid at the office of his Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar, a "black day", Kejriwal tore into Modi and dared him to act against Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his Rajasthan counterpart Vasundhara Raje and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Mounting a fierce attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday demanded his resignation over what he termed was a "flop raid" by the CBI at the Delhi Secretariat to "protect" Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the alleged DDCA scam.
Calling December 15, when CBI conducted the raid at the office of his Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar, a "black day", Kejriwal tore into Modi and dared him to act against Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his Rajasthan counterpart Vasundhara Raje and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Kejriwal also defended Rajendra Kumar against allegations of graft committed in his official capacity under the erstwhile Sheila Dikshit government.
"He's being mentally harassed. CBI has got nothing against him in the last eight days. If I can remove my minister and babu for committing corruption, it is also my duty to protect honest officers," he said participating in a discussion in the state Assembly on the situation arising out of the raid at the Delhi Secretariat and alleged corruption in Delhi and District Cricket Association under Jaitley's watch.
Kumar was seated in the officers' gallery of the Assembly during the proceedings.
"Prime Minister should be ashamed of himself" over the raids, Kejriwal said and went on to take a series of jibes at Modi over "Rs 10 lakh suit" and foreign trips.
"He is fulfilling his dreams now as earlier he did not get a visa. Delhi is all right whenever he is out of the city.
Whenever he's back everything goes haywire," Kejriwal said speaking during the one-day special session of the Assembly which passed a resolution to constitute a Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged corruption in DDCA.
"I seek the Prime Minister's resignation for conducting such a flop raid and for misusing the CBI. If he uses the CBI to get any file then the country will have no democracy left. Tomorrow there can be raids on any Chief Minister. This is dangerous for the country's federal structure," Kejriwal said.
The Chief Minister, against whom Jaitley has filed both civil and criminal defamation suits, further alleged that the CBI was specifically looking for a file "containing a note" with "incriminating" details.
"A DDCA whistle blower used to meet me. That officer told me that there was a meeting of DDCA officials, where Jaitley had told them no not worry about SFIO as he will get it compounded. He (Jaitley) said that he will ensure quashing of cases that come to Delhi police and, if AAP sets up a commission of inquiry, he will get it null and void through 'our special man' LG. It was written in that file," Kejriwal claimed.
Kejriwal claimed the Prime Minister was still not able to get over the "pain" of losing the Delhi Assembly elections. Delhi Assembly today passed a motion moved by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia against CBI raid at Delhi Secretariat, condeming the Centre for its alleged high handedness and adding it was in "violation of the federal structure" and the "spirit of the Constitution".
"We are constantly seeking PM's cooperation and for this, I have met two-three times and told him we don't need money, and instead, we want him not to put hurdles to our works..give us Delhi for a year and will fulfil your dreams," Kejriwal said.
The Delhi Chief Minister termed the CBI raid at his office as "dangerous" for the country's federal structure. Kejriwal claimed it was within the government's powers to set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged corruption in the state's cricket body.
"We have the right to probe the irregularities in sports, player selection, stadium construction. Everyone is admitting that there was a scam...we have power to set up such Commission. In the past, we set up a Commission of Inquiry over the transport scam involving former CM and her officials, but MHA later declared it null and void as LG was getting implicated in it. MHA has no power to declare our Commission of Inquiry null and void," he said.
Refering to Jaitley's lawsuit, Kejriwal said he was surprised as to how a lawyer (Jaitley) could hurt himself because the Union Minister will be crossed examine by our lawyers for almost one year.
"Next pre-summoning evidence on January 5. We want the court to summon us. We will go and trial will begin. His (Jaitley) cross examinitauion will strtech for a year. By filing defamation case, he has hurt himself," Kejriwal added.
Noted criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani will represent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the civil and criminal defamation suits filed against him by Jaitley. Jaitley had on Tuesday filed both civil and criminal defamation cases against Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders for allegedly defaming him and sought Rs 10 crores in damages and their prosecution for offences that entail a punishment of upto two years in jail.
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