Demanding the resignation of State Transport Minister Gopal Rai over the auto-rickshaw scam in which three senior officials of the Transport Department were suspended, Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhayay alleged the involvement of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in the scam. He also rubbished Kejriwal’s ignorance on the matter.
The Delhi BJP will be staging protest against Kejriwal on Monday at the Delhi Secretariat.
Strongly coming down on the AAP Government, Upadhayay said, “The Kejriwal Government is so much into corruption that they are even fooling their biggest supporters, the auto-drivers. Earlier, the corruption in Transport Department was due to middlemen, but now AAP volunteers and MlAs are doing that.”
The BJP has requested lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to seek a report from the Transport Department on the issue and the investigation should be handed over to the anti-corruption branch (ACB), he said.
Upadhayay claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party Government announced issuance of 10,000 auto permits. “They had earlier announced issuance of 10,000 auto permits. After this around 17,000 applications were received and that is where the corruption started.”