New Delhi, Dec 15: The office of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s principal secretary was Tuesday raided by CBI in a corruption case triggering a fresh face-off between the AAP and Centre and a vicious political slugfest in which the AAP chief spewed venom against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Amid charges and counter-charges, Kejriwal claimed his office was raided which was denied by CBI as well as finance minister Arun Jaitley in Rajya Sabha where the opposition created an uproar. The Chief Minister claimed he was in fact the target and that principal secretary Rajendra Kumar was just an excuse.
“I am surprised at the raids at my office,” Kejriwal told media in the evening, hours after he broke the news of the raid with a tweet “CBI raids my office”, as the CBI team reached the third floor of Delhi Secretariat.
The AAP chief in a stern warning to Modi also thundered that he is not going to be cowed down by any CBI raid. “I’m telling you Modiji, you may have scared others but I’m not among those who can be intimidated. I’ll fight till my last breath.”
“When Modi couldn’t handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice. Modi is a coward and psychopath,” he said, sparking an angry condemnation from a furious BJP which demanded an apology from the Chief Minister for his “disgraceful” remarks.
A CBI spokesperson, however, said the searches were being conducted only at the office of Kumar, a senior IAS officer. In all, CBI carried out searches at 14 places connected with Gupta in the national capital and various locations in Uttar Pradesh. PTI