It is an an all out war between the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre and Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party regime over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raid at the office and residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Principal Secretary Rajinder Kumar. Leaders from both sides are using all their might to target each other.
After calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi coward and psychopath, Kejriwal has taken on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accusing him of lying in Parliament.
A few hours after the CBI raided Delhi Principal Secretary Rajinder Kumar, Jaitley told the Rajya Sabha that the action is on a bureaucrat and has nothing to do with Arvind Kejriwal's office or his tenure as CM.
Soon after Jaitley's statement, Kejriwal claimed that the Finance Minister was lying and the CBI was examining files in the CM's office
AAP spokesperson Ashutosh too echoed Kejriwal. "Jaitley lied in Parliament. We want to make it clear that on the pretext of Rajendar Kumar, all files are being scanned. If this is matter related to 2002, why now? You are targeting Kejriwal. The Finance Minister is misleading the House. He has given a misleading statement. This was an attempt to check on all the files in the office. Why was the Delhi CM not taken into confidence. This raids are targeting Kejriwal and not Rajender Kumar," said Ashutosh.
CBI sources said that the raid took place as the Anti-Corruption Branch has registered a case against Kejriwal's Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar. The case is of criminal misconduct against Rajender and other private people. Some Delhi government officials had taken voluntary retirement scheme and floated software company and Rajender Kumar was favouring them from many years in getting them contract. Raids were carried out at four other places too.
Kumar's office is situated on the same floor as Kejriwal's in the Delhi Secretariat. After the raid the CBI sealed the entire floor which saw the AAP launching a no holds barred attack on the Centre and CBI.
The ACB had on December 9 questioned Rajendra Kumar in connection with alleged irregularities in conducting fitness tests for commercial vehicles. According to ACB sources, the queries mostly revolved around action taken by Kumar after the anti-corruption bureau submitted a report in 2013 in connection with the alleged irregularities, ACB sources said.
In 2013, Kumar, who is now Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, was the transport commissioner.
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