‘Saddened’, Anna Hazare opens up on Arvind Kejriwal bribery row

Anna Hazare said, he won’t jump to conclusions and will wait till the investigation is done in this matter

By: News Desk |
May 7, 2017 4:53 pm

Reacting on the bribery allegation made by ousted AAP minister Kapil Mishra against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Anna Hazare said ‘its saddening to hear allegations against Kejriwal.’

According to Indian Today, Anna Hazare said, he won’t jump to conclusions and will wait till the investigation is done in this matter.

Ousted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kapil Mishra on May 7 made a shocking revelation and alleged that he saw Cabinet Minister Satyendra Jain give Rs. 2 crore to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

“Day before yesterday, I saw Satyendra Jain giving Rs. 2 crore to Arvind Kejriwal and I wasn’t able to sleep the entire night,” Mishra said in a press briefing here after meeting Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.

Mishra also claimed that he urged the Chief Minister to disclose as to from where he got the money.

“There are several allegations on money laundering and black money against Satyendra Jain which are known to all. It is known to all that before holding the post of Delhi Cabinet Minister and after taking the oath, he gave a prominent position to his daughter and other relatives,” he said.

Mishra said that Jain is being given the certificate of honesty by the AAP, but he has himself seen him accepting money.

“Satyendra Jain himself has accepted in front of me that he has made a deal of Rs. 50 crore for a relative of Arvind Kejriwal. I even had a discussion about this with Arvind Kejriwal, but he simply asked me to trust him.

But after seeing the cash I cannot keep quiet. It doesn’t matter even if I have been removed from the post. I am not going to stay quite on this issue,’ he said.

He further added that there are number of corrupt people in the party who have their protectors shielding them from action.

Pledging to remove corrupt people from the party, he said that he will go to all the higher authority and make the revelation about these things.

On May 6, shortly after being removed from the Delhi Cabinet, Mishra said he may have been axed for saying he would submit the names of those people involved in the tanker scam to the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB).