Mishra alleges Rs 50 crore land deal for Kejriwal kin

NEW DELHI: Stepping up his attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Monday claimed that Health Minister Satyendar Jain had told him that he had settled a Rs 50 crore land deal in favour of Kejriwal’s brother-in-law. The party trashed the allegations accusing Mishra of being hand in glove with BJP and the central government.

Two days after he was sacked, Mishra went to the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) and claimed to have evidence in support of his allegations that two people close to Kejriwal tried to influence the probe in the water tanker scam.

He also dared Kejriwal and Jain to undergo a lie detector test and offered to subject himself to such a test.

Denying Mishra’s allegations, Jain said that “no such land deal took place” and said he would file a defamation case against Mishra.

“There is a limit to lying. I wasn’t present at CM’s residence on May 5 (Friday) and I can prove it in many ways,” Jain said. “Show us papers (of land deal) or proof said.

“He has lost mental balance and making baseless allegations as he did not even spare Kejriwal’s deceased brother-in-law,” he said.

Jain said that Mishra was making allegations against Kejriwal’s brother-in-law (Surendra Bansal) who is “no more”.

The former water minister said he will meet Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials on Tuesday, give all evidence in support of the allegations and file an FIR.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) fielded its senior leader Sanjay Singh to trash the allegations leveled by Mishra.

Singh accused the BJP and the central government of being behind Mishra in his campaign against Kejriwal, saying this is part of a larger conspiracy to “finish off ” the party and to “silence” the opposition.

Singh told the media that the kind of allegations Mishra had made it clear that he was being used to harass Kejriwal and other ministers in the Delhi government. if its true?” he