Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has decided to take legal action against Aam Aadmi Party leaders Saurabh Bhardwaj, Atishi, Durgesh Pathak, and Jasmine Shah, among others, “for highly defamatory and false allegations of corruption by them, attributed to his tenure as Chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC),” LG House officials said.
These AAP leaders have made allegations that “LG was involved in a scam during demonetization in 2016” and have demanded a CBI inquiry. Officials said that the CBI has already inquired into the case following information given by KVIC and has filed a chargesheet as well. They said that two people, on the basis of whose statements the allegations are being “manufactured against the LG,” have prima facie been found to be engaged in corruption at KVIC after demonetization by the CBI. They said it is amply clear that “a corrupt AAP is using corrupt people to divert attention from their widespread misdeeds that include massive corruption in education, liquor and PWD amounting to thousands of crores.” It has been the hallmark of “Kejriwal and company to shoot and scoot and then, when pushed for the truth, apologise,” they added.
The officials said LG has taken a serious view of these “blatantly false, defamatory and obviously diversionary allegations” made by these AAP leaders and has decided to take legal action against them “so that the AAP does not get away with its characteristic shoot and scoot.” They said the matter being falsely touted by the AAP is with regard to Rs 17.07 lakh as against the claims of Rs 1400 crore being made by the party leaders “which is nothing but a figment of imagination for which the habitual liars will face the consequences”.