OCTOBER 9, 2012: On Robert Vadra-DlF SEZ
‘What role did Vadra playIJ’
“The Haryana Government had allotted over three-acre of land meant for hospital to DlF to set up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Vadra was given as much as 50 per cent of stake in DlF’s SEZ company after one year. What role did he play in that one year when DlF SEZ was in Mr Vadra’s controlIJ The Punjab and Haryana High Court have pointed at a malafide nexus between the two,” alleged Kejriwal attacking Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the Congress-led Haryana Government. He had also asked for the resignation of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on
the issue.
OCTOBER 10, 2012: Sting op on Salman Khurshid’s Trust
‘Khurshid will destroy evidence’
“We demand an urgent FIR. His wife who is the project director should be arrested. Because they are a powerful family, they will destroy evidence and put pressure on witnesses. Salman Khurshid should resign immediately,” said Arvind Kejriwal reacting to a sting operation done by a Hindi news channel wherein it claimed that a Trust being run by Union law Minister Salman Khurshid’s wife forged signatures of senior Government officials and siphoned off several lakhs
of rupees.
APRIl 14, 2013: On Coalgate
‘PM must be sacked’
“This brazen interference in the Coalgate investigation by this Government in an investigation being currently monitored by the Supreme Court shows the desperation of this Government and requires the immediate sacking of the law Minister and the Attorney-General, apart from officials of the Prime Minister’s Office. In fact, it requires the resignation of the PM himself,” read a statement released by
Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party in April, 2013 following reports that the Government had vetted the status report on the coal allocation scam before it was filed by the CBI in the SC.
NOVEMBER 21, 2013: Defends hustle on AAP
‘But we don’t have the
raw footage’
“We had asked Media Sarkar (the web portal which had conducted the sting on AAP leaders) to provide the unedited footage of the sting operation, so that we can go through it and decide appropriate action, but they have refused to provide us the raw video,” Kejriwal had said while defending his party members, including Shazia Ilmi and Kumar Vishwas on sting operations carried out
on them.
JANUARY 14, 2014: On Somnath Bharti ‘indictment’
‘The fraud was committed
in a bank’
“I had a word with Somnath Bharti. We need to understand the case correctly. It was a case of a scam worth more than `100 crore. The fraud was committed in a bank. Fake letters of credit were raised. Many officials of the bank were involved in this fraud… Now, there is no tampering of the evidence in this case. The court termed the sting as tampering of the evidence. We are ready to give this recording to the media,” Kejriwal said on Tuesday while throwing weight behind Delhi law Minister Somnath Bharti on Tuesday.