Delhi Minister and AAP leader Atishi said on Monday that they have resolved not to play with colours and celebrate Holi this year and appealed to the countrymen to join them in the fight against cruelty and evil.
The summons comes close on the heels of former Deputy CM of Delhi and senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia's arrest by CBI in the case.
SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia described Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as the architect of Punjab's new excise policy.
Kejriwal said, "MCD elections are becoming quite clear, it's BJP's 10 videos versus Kejriwal's 10 guarantees. Let's wait till December 4, people of Delhi will give a reply to all those videos."
Meanwhile, a team of the ED officials had also reached Tihar Jail to interrogate Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with an alleged money laundering case pertaining to the excise policy, the sources said.
BJP on Thursday released a sting operation showing the alleged corruption by Delhi's AAP government in "handing over contracts for liquor licenses" under the excise policy
Anna Hazare wrote, "This is the first time I am writing to you after you became Chief Minister. The recent news about the Delhi government on the liquor scam is disheartening."
During the day Manish Sisodia took a jibe over reports of Look Out Circular (LOC) against him and other accused in the excise policy case.
The Delhi Deputy Chief Minister claimed that his party's government brought in a new excise policy to curb graft but Central agencies were used to threaten shopkeepers as well as state officials.
He said with the records available so far, it is more than evident that not only did certain officers ignored and facilitated decisions that were in complete violation of the GNCTD, Act, 1991, Transaction of Business Rules, 1993, Delhi Excise Act, 2009 and Delhi Excise Rules, 2010, but prima facie acted as proactive conduits in formulating and implementing illegal orders solely at the behest of the Minister In-charge, Manish Sisodia.
