Former Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Sunday alleged that a businessman being probed for Rs400 crore scam funded the foreign tours of two top Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.
The allegation met an immediate response from the Delhi Government spokesperson Nagender Sharma who dismissed the allegations and said Mishra had been given a "horribly wrong script".
Mishra posed nine questions to his friend-turned-foe Arvind Kejriwal, including whether he was aware that a Russia trip of AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Ashutosh "was sponsored by a man who is being probed for Rs400-crore high-security number plates scam".
While reiterating that he will stay in the AAP to cleanse it, the rebel leader, who has been suspended from the party's primary membership, invited former India Against Corruption volunteers to help him make Delhi "corruption-free" and "Kejriwal-free".
The AAP Government had awarded the contract to a firm for high-security number plates but it was later terminated on the basis of a fact-finding committee's report, that was constituted by the then Transport Minister Sourabh Bhardwaj.
The Delhi Government spokesperson Nagender Sharma rubbished Mishra's allegations in a series of tweets and said Mishra had no clue of what he was talking about. "Probe into High Security Number Plates scam was ordered by @Saurabh_MlAgk in 49 days govt in Feb 2014. Then l-G Jung reversed the decision. "In Jan 2016 Delhi Government again sent the HSNP file to Delhi ACB despite l-G having sent the case for arbitration on company's request," he tweeted.
Also, Sharma said the BJP had tried to rake up this issue in June last year but went silent when it came to know that file was lying with the Anti-Corruption Branch for months. "Poor fellow has no clue of what he's speaking ! Who is misguiding him," he said.
The posts were retweeted by Ashutosh.