Modi should tell me what I have done wrong: Kirti Azad

BJP MP Kirti Azad today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene after he was suspended by the party for attacking Arun Jaitley on the DDCA row, and indicated he may seek a court-monitored probe against the Delhi cricket body.
A defiant Azad maintained that his fight was only against alleged corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) and not against any individual and asked for "specific reasons" for the disciplinary action against him by the party.
"BJP and RSS always speak about uprooting corruption. We also talk about walking the path of Mahatma Gandhi. Thus, I wish that Narendra Modiji intervenes in this issue, goes deeper in it, and then tells me about what I have done wrong, as I need specific answers," Azad told reporters here.

Yesterday, party chief Amit Shah ordered his suspension for publicly targeting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with allegations of irregularities in Delhi's cricket body DDCA.
While talking to media here today, Azad alleged that CBI is indirectly helping DDCA by alerting the cricketing body through notices, resulting in "disappearance" of files.
"I request CBI not to issue notices (to DDCA), as files eventually disappear after such notices. If tomorrow I will go to court and demand a court-monitored inquiry in this case, then you will be in trouble," said the BJP MP from Darbhanga in Bihar.

The former cricketer said that he has received the notice of suspension and he is planning to reply to the party by this evening. He claimed that senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has told him that he will help him in drafting his reply to the suspension notice.

Swamy today appeared to question the party's decision to suspend Azad, asking whether cricket fell within the purview of party discipline.
"Kirti issues are 1 -- is cricket affair within the purview of party discipline. 2 -- due to SC case on BCCI, is party decision amenable in court," Swamy said on twitter.
Azad said that he had full "faith" in Prime Minister Modi and would expect him to do "justice."
"I never said anything against the party. I was only speaking against corruption in DDCA," he said
"I hope the Prime Minister will listen to my plea and do justice. I will also ask margdarshak mandal to come forward and look into the issue," he told reporters here.

Azad said that, "In that notice, there is nothing
specific, as where I was found to be involved in anti-party activities or what exactly I have done wrong. I have been raising the issue of corruption since last nine years, but, I never used party platform for it, as I know that party has to nothing with it."
"Thus, now I want to know that how my fight against corruption in DDCA falls into the premise of 'anti-party' activity or indiscipline? This matter is of BCCI, not of party. I never said anything against the party. I was only speaking against corruption in DDCA," he said.

The leader also vouched to continue his crusade against corruption. He also recited Atal Bihari Vajpayee's famous poem - 'Haar Nahi Manunga, Raar Nayi Thanunga'.
"I am not saying that it's a crime to speak truth in BJP. But, if party feels that whatever I have done is a crime, then I will do that again and again," said Azad, who is here on a personal visit.
Cracking the whip, the BJP had yesterday suspended Azad, who has been leading a campaign against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on alleged corruption in DDCA, charging him with indulging in anti-party activities and accusing him of "colluding" with Congress and AAP to bring it into "disrepute".

The action of the BJP Parliamentary Board to suspend Azad from the party's primary membership came after his press conference attacking Jaitley and subsequent acts of defiance both inside and outside Parliament.