As Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, who were being probed for their involvement in the alleged liquor scam in the national capital, quit from the cabinet, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) calling it a party of “3Cs – Cut, Commission, and Corruption”.
Addressing the media persons, Prasad said, “We have learnt that Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain have resigned. Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal accepted Satyendar Jain’s resignation after nine months. Manish Sisodia should have resigned the moment such scandalous allegations came to light.” The BJP leader said that VIPs involved in liquor scam have changed hundreds of phones and Sisodia changed his phone 16 times.
He said Kejriwal and Sisodia who had promised to open schools, are now selling liquor. “You had said that schools will be opened… You are selling liquor. There is nowhere in India that the one who is the Education Minister is also the liquor minister,” Prasad said.
He claimed that people who claimed to be anti-corruption crusaders and used to name corrupt and honest people in public life had ensured governance, which increased the number of alcohol users in Delhi.
“If Manish Sisodia has any moral compass left, he should have resigned then. His bail plea in the Supreme Court was that he looks after 18 departments. He was keen to run departments and not to explain such allegations. AAP’s conduct is 3Cs — ‘Cut, Commission and Corruption’,” added the BJP leader.
Recently, CBI and ED have made several arrests for alleged corruption in the implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy. Sisodia was arrested on Sunday in an ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of the Delhi government.
