Digvijay asks 27 questions to Arvind Kejriwal
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh stepped up his attack on the activist by posing a number of questions to him raising doubts about off-shore funding of his NGO and asking why he never raised issue of corruption in BJP-ruled states.
A day after shooting off a letter to Kejriwal in which the Congress leader described him as a “self-serving ambitious megalomaniac having “streak” of Hitler, Singh on Saturday sent the activist a list of 27 questions asking him to “respond to them with clarity and honesty as you demand from others.”
The AICC leader also sought to know Kejriwal’s “relationship with US based NGO Avaaz” which, he said, has been funding civil disobedience movement in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. Singh said, “What is the logistical and other support your anti-corruption movement received from Avaaz?”
Singh, a known detractor of Kejriwal, also sought to know from him as to why he “never raised issue of corruption in the BJP-ruled states” though local press and political parties and CAG have reported cases of corruption there.
“You have been asking for Jan Lokpal in Government of India but have not questioned Narendra Modi, who has successfully blocked appointment of Lokayuktas in Gujarat since 2002. Would be please explain, why?”, he asked.
Singh also asked some questions related to Kejriwal and his wife’s service tenure and rules saying “you have always preached that we, politicians, should not violate rules and regulations but to the best of my knowledge, you have violated provisions of All India Service Rules yourself.
“Is it a fact that in your entire service of 20 years in Indian Revenue Service, you never served outside Delhi even though the norms of the service are that all IRS officers serve a posting only for three years in a place? Is it a fact that even your wife, who is also an IRS officer, has never served outside Delhi?
“Is it a fact that any serving officer, who goes on study leave for two years with full pay has to submit a full report of his study to the Government? Is it a fact that you did not submit a full report but only an interim report with a promise to submit a full report later, which you never did,” he asked.
Arvind Kejriwal is a “self-serving ambitious megalomaniac having “streak” of Hitler, Digvijay Singh had alleged on Friday in the sharpest attack on the activist.
Seeking to turn the table on Kejriwal, the Congress leader said he would also be posing him questions on Saturday and asked Kejriwal whether he would dismiss like RSS, Anna Hazare and Ramdev the “uncomfortable” questions asked to them by him.
In a letter to Kejriwal, Singh said “when YP Singh (Retd IPS), your former colleague in civil society movement, called you a Hitler, I could see the streak in you.
