BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma on Thursday alleged that there has been a corruption of hundreds of crores of rupees in Delhi involving wholesale licence holders when the excise policy 2021-22 was in force.
Verma alleged that a South Delhi pub owner, close to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, used to collect six per cent of the commission money from the wholesale (L-1) licence holders. No immediate reaction was available from Sisodia or the ruling AAP over Verma's allegations.
The BJP MP from West Delhi alleged pub owner deleted his photos with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Sisodia posted on social media and left India after the L-G recommended the CBI probe. "This pub owner, Dinesh Arora, is said to be the right-hand man of Sisodia who used to go to his pub at night. I want to ask Sisodia why did he go to the pub at night and why his photographs with him were deleted after the CBI enquiry was recommended," Verma posed. Former MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa alleged that the "money collected from the licensees was used for AAP's campaign in the Punjab Assembly polls earlier this year.
He said it was through a person named Samir Mitron that Dinesh Arora used to collect cut money and send the same to Amit Arora’s Punjab Body company whose office is in Gurugram which works with name of KSJM in Gurugram and is into whole sale work of it. "The money is also being spent for campaigning in Gujarat and HP where polls are scheduled later this year," he alleged.