Sisodia accused number one but Kejriwal ‘kingpin’ in Delhi ‘liquor scam’: BJP

Earlier Manish Sisodia had claimed that 2024 polls will be a battle between Kejriwal and Modi, who he alleged, was using all means to scare the AAP chief

The BJP on Saturday alleged that AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the “kingpin” in the “liquor scam” as the war of words between the two parties escalated after the CBI named Manish Sisodia an accused in the case.

At a press conference, Union Minister Anurag Thakur accused the Aam Aadmi Party of trying to divert the issue from the alleged scam by linking the CBI action to politics as its “real face has been unmasked”.

Making light of AAP leaders’ claim about their rising poll prospects which they alleged have prompted the BJP to use the probe agency against it, Mr. Thakur said the party had made tall claims ahead of a number of elections but could not stand before Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

It could not open its account in the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, he said, asserting that the BJP under Modi will better its Lok Sabha tally in 2024 in the same way it had improved on its 2014 show in 2019.

Sisodia had earlier claimed that the 2024 polls will be a battle between Kejriwal and Modi who he alleged was using all means to scare the AAP chief.

Seeking to put the AAP in a dock over the alleged scam in the allotment of liquor license in the national capital by the Kejriwal government, Mr. Thakur asked its leaders to answer questions over the issue.

It is a government of “revdi” (freebies) and it is also a “bevdi” (drunkards) government, he alleged and asked why it returned over ₹144 crore to liquor companies without the Cabinet approval.