No clean chit to Arun Jaitley: Manish Sisodia

Hitting at finance minister Arun Jaitley, Delhi government on Monday said there is no question of giving a "clean chit" to him when an investigation into its alleged financial irregularities is yet to start.

"No clean chit has been given to anyone in Delhi cricket body investigation. The enquiry is yet to begin," Delhi's deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.

The BJP said the AAP government should apologise to Jaitley for charging him with corruption in DDCA even though its own report found nothing culpable against him.

Sisodia raised a number of questions on financial irregularities in DDCA's functioning and in giving tenders for work already done.

"Election commission of DDCA, Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), and fact finding committee have found scams involving crores of rupees. How fake companies were created and given tenders and how payments were given for work which had already been done," he asked.

"The election commission reports also say that private cricket academies are being run under the umbrella of DDCA. There is no scope for students of school and colleges to participate in league matches of DDCA," he said.

Sisodia said an inquiry commission headed by former solicitor general Gopal Subramaniam that the city government set up has yet to start its probe, and that Jaitley would have a lot to answer for.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also said he would not apologise for targeting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the DDCA issue as his government's panel did not give anybody a clean chit.

The Chief Minister tweeted, "BJP almost begging me for an apology, won't oblige them. Let @arunjaitley be cross-examined in defamation cases