Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra will be facing questioning in Delhi — in two different cases.
While Kejriwal will be interrogated by the ED in the liquor policy case, Mahua Moitra will appear before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee in the ‘cash-for-questions’ case.
The scrutiny of the two leaders has also started a war of words with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kejriwal has time and again accused the saffron camp of using the central agencies to tighten the noose around the Opposition leaders.
Arvind Kejriwal, Mahua Moitra To Face Probe: Key Points
- ED will question Arvind Kejriwal today in the liquor policy case. Notably, former deputy CM of Delhi Manish Sisodia and AAP MP Sanjay Singh are already in jail in connection with the case.
- AAP leader Atishi had claimed that the probe agency will arrest Kejriwal when he appears for questioning on November 2.
- After Kejriwal, it will be the turns of Hemant Soren, Tejashwi Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee, Pinarayi Vijayan, MK Stalin and then Maharashtra opposition leaders, AAP MP Raghav Chadha said.
- On the other hand, Mahua Moitra will appear before the Lok Saha Ethics Committee to give her statement on the ‘cash-for-questions’ allegations.
- BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai had levelled the allegations against her.
- They complained to the Lok Sabha against Mahua Moitra that she took cash and expensive gifts from industrialist Jai Anant Dehadrai and gave him access to her Parliament login through which the industrialist posted questions against Gautam Adani.
- Mahua Moitra admitted that she had shared her Parliament login with Darshan Hiranandani in 2019 when she became the MP so that his office staff could help her type in the questions that she approved.
- However, she ruled out any pecuniary motivation and asserted that the questions were always hers.
- A day before her questioning, it was reported that there were nearly 47 log-ins to her parliamentary account from Dubai.
- Calling both Arvind Kejriwal and Mahua Moitra corrupt, BJP’s Nishikant Dubey tweeted, “Both 2 numbaris will present themselves on November 2.”