Jaipur: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to investigate bank account details for the last five years of political parties and leaders.
Addressing a public meeting here, he said that the real motive behind this decision was loot of public money. He questioned the logic behind allowing political parties to accept money in cash while asking people to go cashless. “The BJP and Congress accept 70 to 80 per cent of their donations in cash,” he alleged.
“I demand that the PM investigate bank accounts of all political parties and their leaders for the last five years if he is serious about checking corruption.”
“The BJP and the Congress accept 70 to 80 per cent of their donations in cash,” he alleged.
Compare that to AAP, which gets only eight per cent of its donations in bank account,” he said.
Throwing a challenge to Mr Modi, he said, “I demand that the Prime Minister investigate bank accounts of all political parties and their leaders for the last five years if he is serious about checking corruption.” It is not fair that when people are asked to go cashless and provide details of small sum of `5,000, political parties are allowed to deposit crores without any query, he added.
Mr Kejriwal said that he would have been the first to hail the Prime Minister if the motive behind demonetisation was to attack corruption and black money. “Unfortunately, it is a big scam and a conspiracy to siphon off public money,” he alleged.
The Delhi chief minister alleged that Mr Modi has taken money to implement demonetisation in order to help his businessmen friends, who were unable to repay huge bank loans. “Kuch toh liya hoga. Aaj kal toh bhai bina kisi swarth ek doosare ki madad nahi karte (He must have taken something. These days no one helps each other without some motive),” he said.
Claiming that his allegations were true, Mr Kejriwal said that otherwise these people would have slapped defamation cases against him. He said that he was slapped with defamation cases in the past whenever he raised corruption charges against these people but no case has been filed so far even though it’s been a month since he has been making allegations, which proves that there is truth in what he has been saying.
If Modi ji is so serious about wiping out corruption than why is he shying away from inquiry into Birla and Sahara papers?” he asked.
Reminding people of BJP’s unfulfilled promise of Rs 15 lakh in every citizen’s account, he warned them that they are being made fool to believe that the government deposit Rs 5000 into their account from the black money seized from the rich. Actually, the money you have been depositing will also disappear as it would be given to businessmen who already owe banks Rs 8 lakh crore he said.
