The BJP on Saturday accused the Delhi Government of trying to divert attention from the irregularities in its excise policy and using former Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal as a “sacrificial lamb”.
BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra asked why Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also heads the Excise Department, was silent so far.
“The Kejriwal Government is trying to divert attention from irregularities in its excise policy by blaming (the former) LG as they need a sacrificial lamb since the CBI probe is going to uncover those irregularities," Patra said at a Press conference.
The BJP spokesperson alleged numerous irregularities in the implementation of the Excise Policy 2021-22 by the Delhi government. Sisodia first exempted Rs 144 crore license fee of licensees during the coronavirus pandemic without Cabinet approval, which was taken only in July 2022, Patra claimed.
Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta said his party has been opposing the excise policy since day one and now the Kejriwal government's wrongdoings have been exposed.
Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said he has been demanding from the beginning to not make wrong policy and even raised this issue in the Assembly, but the Kejriwal Government is violating the law and master plan for its own benefit. He said today it has become clear that the new policy of the Government is wrong, but at that time not one of us was heard. I had challenged that the new excise policy would be proved wrong and now our challenge is proving true.
Baijal was the Delhi LG when the Kejriwal Government prepared the new excise policy, which was implemented on November 17, 2021.