Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not direct CBI to raid Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday, asserting that they would have no qualms about accepting it if it was otherwise. “We are dabangg (bold) leaders. Modiji is also just like me. Had we done this, we would have definitely said so. I myself spoke to Modiji. He told me, for the last one year, I have not issued any direction to CBI in any case. I have only told CBI to do its own legal work,” Gadkari told Rajat Sharma on his Aap ki Adalat show on India TV, according to a Press release issued by the channel.
He also rejected Kejriwal’s charge that CBI had gone to the CM’s office in search of the DDCA enquiry file, saying it is a “childish charge”.
“CBI raided 14 places. It is ridiculous for Kejriwal to say that CBI had gone there in search of DDCA file. There is no DDCA case with CBI and it has nothing to do with DDCA. like Rahul Gandhi, Kejriwal also makes childish allegations. It seems ours has become a democracy of children,” he said.