New Delhi: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of spreading lies and misusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in framing deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in an alleged liquor scam, the Hindu reported.
His comments came hours after the ED said it had provisionally attached assets worth over Rs 52.24 crore belonging to Sisodia and others in the Delhi excise policy case. The chief minister countered the allegations saying that the value of confiscated assets belonging to Sisodia was only Rs 80 lakh.
Kejriwal accused the probe agency of “running false news on TV channels since evening that Manish Sisodia’s property worth 52 crore” has been confiscated. “Total property worth 80 lakh has been confiscated, which is from before 2018 when the excise policy was not even formulated,” Kejriwal said in a tweet. “BJP has come up with a new bundle of lies to defame Manish Sisodia. According to ED’s own documents, Manish Sisodia has assets worth only 81 lakh, including 11 lakh in a bank account, a flat of 5 lakh and a flat of 65 lakh,” the Hindustan Times quoted Atishi as saying. –Agencies
