Kejriwal has lots to hide, will reveal more, says Mishra

I have shared all the information I have with the ACB. Kejriwal has lots to hide. I have never seen him so silent.

Delhi minister Kapil Mishra went to the AntiCorruption Branch (ACB) on Thursday and recorded his statement in the water tanker scam. Mishra said he would reveal more details to the ACB officers in his next visit on Monday.

“I have shared all the information I have with the ACB. Kejriwal has lots to hide. I have never seen him so silent,” he said, after his meeting with the ACB.

This was Mishra’s second visit after submitting a complaint against CM Arvind Kejriwal in the tanker scam on Monday. He has accused the CM of influencing the probe and supporting the water mafia. Leaving the ACB headquarters after meeting additional commissioner Alok Kumar, Mishra said, “I will go there again at 11am with more details.”

Mishra, who has accused Kejriwal and health minister Satyendar Jain of corrupt practices, is on hunger strike since Wednesday. He began his protest to get the AAP government in Delhi to reveal details about foreign trips undertaken by five close associates of Kejriwal.

Mishra wrote another open letter on Thursday — third in three days. The former water minister wrote that the party spread a lie that Ankit Bhardwaj, who allegedly tried to attack him on Wednesday, was from the BJP even though he claimed to be an AAP worker and associated with Jain’s Mohalla Clinic project.

“Even before the police could take him away, Sanjay Singh announced that he is a BJP man and also released some photos. It all happened so quickly that it looks like you had all the details,” he wrote in the letter.

An AAP official said the party will take action against Bhardwaj if found to be a party worker.

The rebel MLA had earlier accused Kejriwal of accepting ₹2 crore from Jain. He also alleged that Jain had settled a ₹50 crore land deal for the AAP chief’s brother-in-law Surender Bansal.

Meanwhile, Rahul Sharma, an RTI activist on whose complaint the anti-graft unit had filed an FIR against Bansal, gave his statement to the ACB. Sharma has obtained copies under the RTI Act, which showed that Bansal had taken money from PWD for jobs in the name of fictitious firms.

“ACB wanted details about the papers I have. I have also filed a separate complaint at the IP Estate police station asking police to investigate the cause of Bansal’s death,” he said.