Ready to go to jail for public duty: Sisodia on ACB raid

Delhi's Anti-Corruption Branch today raided offices of PWD and transport departments acting on city BJP's allegations of irregularities in dismantling of the BRT corridor, triggering angry protest from Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who dared the Centre to put Delhi government functionaries in jail.
The ACB's surprise action came two days after BJP's controversial MLA O P Sharma along with party worker and advocate Vivek Garg, lodged a complaint with ACB alleging a scam of nearly Rs 15 crore in the project.
Taking strong exception to the raids, Sisodia targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has not learnt any lesson from the Supreme Court's ruling restoring Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh.

"I had initiated dismantling of BRT following people's demand. We will proudly go to jail for public duty.
"You do not understand people's sentiment, you do not understand slap by courts. Modiji, put all of us into jail. Still you will not be able to stop the truth to come out," Sisodia said in a series of tweets.
ACB chief M K Meena said, "Teams have been sent to procure certain documents on the basis of the complaint.

Delhi Transport Minister, Satyendar Jain, refuted the allegation and said the tender was worth Rs 3.91 crore and the payment made to contractor amounted to Rs 3.1 crore.

Sisodia said "ACB has raided the office of PWD in connection with the dismantling of BRT corridor."
Referring to the Supreme Court order restoring the Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh, he said, "It seems that the Centre has not learnt its lesson from the Arunachal setback."
The dismantling of the 6.20-km-long BRT corridor started this January. Scrapping of the Rs 180-crore traffic project built in 2008 was one of the poll promises of Aam Aadmi Party which took a dig at the Sheila Dikshit-government for alleged copy-paste work.
The AAP government has been alleging that the ACB has been targeting AAP leaders with vindictive attitude and was putting hurdles in implementation of various welfare projects.

The AAP government has been severely critical of LG- appointed Meena whose transfer order was recently stayed.