ACB running after AAP instead of graft issues: Satyendar Jain

Delhi PWD Minister Satyendar Jain alleged that instead of addressing graft issues, Anti-Corruption Branch is busy running after AAP leaders and now "trying to summon" Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia in connection with the alleged Rs 400-crore water tanker scam.

"ACB is busy running after AAP leaders. Gopal Rai and Kapil Mishra have been summoned by it in the last one month. Now, they are trying to summon Kejriwal and Sisodia," Jain said.

The minister's remark came a day after ACB raided offices of PWD and transport departments acting on city BJP MLA O P Sharma's allegations of irregularities in dismantling of the BRT corridor.

Sharma along with party worker and advocate Vivek Garg, had lodged a complaint with ACB alleging a scam of nearly Rs 15 crore in the project.

Jain, however, refuted Sharma's allegation, saying the tender for the project was worth Rs 3.91 crore but the BJP MLA sniffed a Rs 15 crore scam in it.

He said AAP leaders were not scared of ACB and dared it to send them all to jail.

The probe agency is "demoralising" bureaucrats working with the Delhi government by launching probes against them, he said.

Last month, ACB had registered a case on a complaint filed by BJP MLA Vijender Gupta who had accused Kejriwal of "suppressing" the find-fact committee's report for 11 months on the alleged water tanker scam linked to former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.