Arvind Kejriwal claims CBI raided his office, calls PM Narendra Modi a ‘coward, psychopath’
Arvind Kejriwal has said that PM Narendra Modi resorted to ‘cowardice’ as he couldn’t handle him politically. Kejriwal’s office has been reported to be raided by the CBI ..
Taking tensions between the Delhi government and the Centre to a new level, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided his office at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He also went as far as to call the Prime Minister a ‘coward and a psychopath.
The CBI on its part has said that it has registered a case against Rajendra Kumar, secretary to the CM, on the allegation that he has abused his official position. It also made it clear that it had not sealed the CM’s chamber. But Kejriwal alleged that files in his own office were also looked into by the CBI.
“I am the only CM who dismissed, on my own, a minister n a senior officer on charges of corruption and handed their cases to CBI. If CBI had any evidence against Rajender, why didn’t they share it wid me? I wud hv acted against him,” Kejriwal wrote on Twitter. The raid could potentially be the latest flash-point in what has been a highly troublesome and tumultous relationship between the AAP government and the BJP-ruled Centre ever since Kejriwal assumed power.
Last week, The Indian Express had reported that Rajendra Kumar, the most powerful bureaucrat in the capital, was questioned several times by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi government in connection with the 2002 CNG fitness scam case.
Sources said Kumar denied any involvement in the case. Back in June, the Home Ministry was all set to initiate disciplinary action against Kumar for not relinquishing his position. Kumar had assumed the charge of home secretary after the city government shifted incumbent senior IAS officer Dharam Pal and placed him at the disposal of the Home Ministry following a tussle between the AAP government and Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung over the appointment of Mukesh Kumar Meena as chief of Anti-Corruption Branch.
