The Congress, which has been alleging witch-hunt and misuse of agencies against political opponents, is somehow elated at the CBI raids at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence.
Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar said it too had raised the matter of “corruption” in the distribution of liquor licences with the previous Police Commissioner but no action was taken while Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said the honest end up paying the price in such processes
Soon after the CBI raids were conducted at the residence of Sisodia, the Delhi Congress president said it fought to prevent Delhi from becoming a drug Capital and has pledged to send “hardcore dishonest to jail.”
Kumar said the party had in June written to the then Police Commissioner of Delhi, Rakesh Asthana, informing him of a “multi-crore scam” in the illegal distribution of liquor licences to shell companies.
He said the party had also staged several protests demanding the resignation of Delhi Excise Minister Manish Sisodia over the alleged violation of rules and procedural lapses in the Arvind Kejriwal government's Excise Policy, 2021-22.
"The CBI has registered a case against Kejriwal's another corrupt Minister Sisodia in the liquor scam and raids.
“We have promised to public to send these 'hardcore dishonest' to jail," Kumar tweeted in Hindi.
Khera said the honest end up paying the price in such processes. “The flip side to relentless misuse of agencies against political rivals is that even legitimate, rightful actions of agencies come under a cloud of suspicion. In the process, the corrupt get away hiding behind the ‘misuse’ argument and the honest end up paying the price,” tweeted Khera, communication head of the Congress.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh retweeted it. Khera was advisor to Late Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who lost power to the AAP in 2013. Dikshit ruled Delhi for 15 years.
Former East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit alleged that the AAP and BJP were hand in glove to damage the Congress, “but it seems that the BJP does not require AAP now so the raids are being conducted”.
Dikshit expressed surprise that the raids did not happen earlier. "We were hearing about happenings in Delhi Govt. Surprising that raids didn't happen earlier. Be it liquor case, construction of rooms in schools, teachers recrutiment, wherever you see, there should've been 10 CBI raids," he said
Senior leader from the party Alka Lamba said the Deputy Chief Minister should reach Delhi and cooperate with the investigation.
“They kept on opposing the liquor policy during Shiela Dikshit’s time. But ultimately, they had to rollback their own liquor policy and go back to the one that was implemented by Sheila Dikshit,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Congress also slammed the AAP Government over education model of Delhi asking that why the enrollment in Delhi Government schools are declining.
The Congress also took it to twitter and wrote, “If your education model is so great Kejriwal then why are the enrollment numbers dropping?” questioned in tweet. The Congress also attached a picture stating that in year 2013-2014 the enrollment in the Delhi schools were reported 16.1 lakh, while the enrolment in 2019-2020 were reported 15.2 lakh.