CBI raid at Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia residence New Delhi on Friday.New Delhi Highlights: A day after his residence was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Saturday said the searches were not related to corruption but to stop the meteoric rise of Arvind Kejriwal. Hitting back at Sisodia hours later, the BJP said, “Ye rewdi ki sarkar bhi hai, aur bewde ke bhi (this is a government of freebies and drunkards).”
In a press conference, Sisodia said, “Corruption is not what Prime Minister Narendra Modi is worried about. If that was the case, the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) would be probing the scams in Gujarat following the hooch tragedy. They would be investigating as to why the expressway that was inaugurated by the Prime Minister washed away barely five days since opening. The Centre is just worried about the meteoric rise of Arvind Kejriwal, who has shown in Punjab that people are yearning for a change.”
“Everyone has seen what they did in Maharashtra and Goa. And now that Arvind Kejriwal is doing such fantastic work in the field of healthcare and education, the Prime Minister is afraid of him. To date, people kept asking as to who would go up against PM Modi in 2024. I am declaring here, it will be Modi versus Kejriwal in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls,” he added.
Later, Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said, “First they said the Delhi liquor policy is the best, and the moment it was investigated, they revoked it. The sale of liquor increased and revenue decreased by 80 per cent; how is it possible? If Sisodia said it was the best policy, then where did the revenue go?”
The CBI raids were in connection with its probe into alleged corruption in the rollout of the Delhi government’s now scrapped 2021-22 Delhi excise policy. Fifteen people, including Sisodia, figure in the CBI’s FIR.
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Entrepreneur Vijay Nair, one of the accused in a case registered by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in implementation of Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22, on Saturday refuted that he has fled the country and said he was abroad for "personal" work.
Nair said in a statement that he was surprised by the news that he has "run away" abroad and added "I will fully cooperate as soon as I hear from the CBI." "I am abroad for the last few weeks for some personal work. I have not done anything wrong. So there is no question of my running away," he said. --PTI
"First bewdi sarkar is Yogi Adityanath's government, which made a profit of 21.8 per cent from excise duty and revenue. The second is Karnataka -- it's annual excise revenue is 20.4 per cent. Madhya Pradesh's Shivraj Singh government earns 19.9 per cent revenue by selling liquor... you (BJP) created an army of alcoholics and killed hundreds with illegal liquors and are a calling Delhi govt "Bewdi" sarkar," said AAP leader Sanjay Singh.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh calls BJP government at the Centre and all the states where it is in power -- "Bewdi (drunkard) Sarkar".
Anurag Thakur in a press conference said, "I have three questions with Manish Sisodia and (Arvind) Kejriwal ji. If manufacturing company were not allowed to take contract in retail, then why did you give them contract? Why did you give contract to cartel company to sell liquor? Blacklisted companies were given contract or not?"
"On October 25, when blacklisted companies were given notice by Delhi excise department, then what action was taken by Kejriwal ji, Sisodia ji and AAP government?" he said.
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's house was raided on Friday by the CBI in connection with a probe into the scrapped excise policy of the Delhi government.
On BJP vs AAP in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said, 'They (AAP) could not open account in UP and Uttarakhand. They will not be able to open account in Himachal and Gujarat. They have hit wicket.'
'Their left hand Satyendar Jain was given an honesty certificate by (Arvind) Kejriwal ji. The court is not even giving him bail. Now where his right hand (Manish Sisodia) will be, I can't say,' said Thakur.
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's house was raided on Friday by the CBI in connection with a probe into the scrapped excise policy of the Delhi government.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that some people are engaged in earning money from liquor mafia, "while we are distributing vaccines, that is the difference".
"I want to tell media friends that the subject is liquor corruption and (Manish) Sisodia is accused number one. Kejriwalji and Manish Sisodia are talking about everything but not liquor policy," he added.
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's house was raided on Friday by the CBI in connection with a probe into the scrapped Delhi excise policy.
Union minister Anurag Thakur in a press conference on Saturday said, "Delhi's liquor policy has been made by liquor contractors or by liquor sympathisers, Sisodia ji? From Delhi to Punjab, AAP's corruption could be seen. Ye rewri ki surkar bhi hai aur bewde ke bhi (This is a government of both freebies and drunkards)."
He added that the country has seen the faces of "accused number one Sisodia ji and kingpin Kejriwal ji," referring to Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, respectively.
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, in a press conference to address the CBI raid at Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence, said, "First they said best policy and the moment it was investigated, they revoked it. The sale of wine increased and revenue decreased by eighty percent, how is it possible?"
He added, "Manish Sisodia says this is the best policy. Then where did revenue go?"
"I want to tell you that Lok Sabha 2024 elections is going to be Modi vs Kejriwal," said Manish Sisodia in a press conference on Saturday.
"Till now it was Modi vs who? The entire country is now coming forward to support Kejriwal and that is what causing trouble for Modi ji and that is why he is stopping him (Kejriwal) from doing good work. In the next 3-4 days they will arrest me and other AAP leaders but we are not scared. You cannot break us with your CBI, ED, money and power. We are sons of Bhagat Singh and we are not afraid of jail. If needed, we will sacrifice our lives for the development of this nation, to provide education and health to all citizens. 2024 elections will be Kejriwal vs Modi.. you cannot break and stop us," Sisodia added.
Sisodia addressed the media a day after CBI raided his house for over 14 hours in connection with the probe into the now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy.
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on Saturday said, 'I want to tell Prime Minister Narendra Modi that such petty politics to stop the work in heath and education doesn't give a good impression. I also want to tell that this is the difference between Kejriwal and Modi– if Kejriwal ji sees and finds that someone is doing good work, he appreciates them and tries to learn and adopt and doesn't interfere or try to stop them... This is the difference.'
He added, "But when Modi ji sees someone doing good work, he threatens them with CBI and ED to stop what they are doing. Just two days ago, Kejriwal launched a mission to make India number one. Instead of supporting and appreciating the initiative of a CM who wants to develop the country's health and education, Modi ji tries to stop him and sends CBI to raid his Education Minister. Kejriwal ji works and thinks about the poor but Modi thinks about some rich millionaires and works for them.
"Kejriwal ji thinks about how to give education and good health care to a poor person all 24 hours, but Modi ji in that time thinks and plots how to destroy the government and opposition that is doing well in other states using CBI and ED. They used CBI and ED to collapse governments in other states where BJP is not in power like Maharastra, Karnataka, Goa, Madhya Pradesh etc. We work hard to make a government but Modi ji only plots to destroy it, he only thinks and dreams about this only. You are the PM of this nation, why are you trying to collapse a government instead of thinking about good governance and supporting good governance. These days Modi ji only dreams about how to use CBI and ED and destroy opposition government in states," Sisodia said.
Sisodia addressed the media a day after CBI raided his house for over 14 hours in connection with the probe into the now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy.
'They want to stop Kejriwal and the development of the nation— that is why they are targeting his health and education ministers who brought changes in the health and education system. They arrested health minister (Satyendar Jain) and now they are targeting me and want to arrest me,' said Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in a press conference on Saturday.
'I am not a corrupt person, not have I done corruption. They are after me just because I am a man of Arvind Kejriwal. They want to stop the education and health model of Delhi. They arrested health minister and will arrest me in few days,' said Sisodia.
Sisodia addressed the media a day after CBI raided his house for over 14 hours in connection with the probe into the now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy.
'Their real problem and worries are because of Arvind Kejriwal and his expansion as the best leader across the country,' said Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in a press conference on Saturday, referring to BJP's allegations of corruption against him.
'After Punjab, he is being liked and loved by the people across the country and they are seeing him as a national leader and an alternative option. This what they are scared of, and to stop Kejriwal from expanding, they are fabricating false cases against me. All these are scripted,' Sisodia added.
"Let me tell you what is the truth... first of all this not a liquor scam... they don't care about liquor scam. Every year in Gujarat Rs 10,000 crore excise duty is being stolen and these people are only doing this scam. If they care about liquor scam that much, why don't they instruct CBI to investigate and probe into the matter there. Why don't they send ED and CBI there," Manish Sisodia said in a press conference on Saturday.
He added, "If they care about the corruption and irregularities in liquor and excise policy they will go send CBI and ED to Gujarat... What is a real scam, let me tell you.. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Expressway in Bundelkhand and within five days of inauguration, the expressway caved in... This is a scam... the CBI should have been sent to the officers and people involved in the making of that expressway should be raided and investigation should be going in that case."
'They are saying that a big level scam happened in the Delhi Excise Policy. Yesterday I saw in news, Manoj Tiwari ji was in a press conference said Rs 8000 crore scam in the policy. Another BJP leader says 11000 crore scam and Delhi L-G in his report said Rs 144 crore scam. But, then I read the CBI's FIR which mentions Rs 1 crore scam. Now, I want to say that all these are completely non-sense, false and baseless allegations. Delhi Excise Policy was formulated with transparency and fairness and it was the country's best excise policy. But the former L-G with an intention to fail and destroy the policy, tweaked just few days before it's implementation,' Manish Sisodia said in a press conference on Saturday. He added, 'CBI FIR says sources said this, source said that.. there is no truth in it at all.. this is completely false, baseless.'
The CBI on Friday raided the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the Delhi government’s now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
"The Excise Policy 2021-22 which is being discussed, criticiced and on which the controversy is going on was the best policy that formulated and implemented in Delhi. It was the best policy and could have made a profit of Rs 10000 crore if the former LG Anil Baijal had not made changes in the policy just 48 hours before the implementation of this policy," Manish Sisodia said, addressing the media on Saturday.
The CBI on Friday raided the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the Delhi government’s now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
Manish Sisodia, in a press conference on Saturday, compared the two stories that were published on the front page of NYT– one that was recently published on the Delhi Education model and one that was published during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and had pictures of burning dead bodies in crematorium.
Showing a copy of the pandemic story, Sisodia said, "When this was published in the front page of NYT, the entire country felt ashamed... We did not feel good and happy about our governance and model in the country. But now when the story of Delhi Education model is on front page of NYT, every single citizen of this is happy and proud."
"CBI conducted raids at both my house at Mathura Road and office in Delhi Sachiwalay. All the CBI officers behaved well with me and my family. No one wants CBI in their home but they had directions from above so they raided my house. I want to thank them as they behaved well with my family members," Manish Sisodia said, a day after his house was raided by CBI for 14 hours.
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, hitting out at Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, said that the CBI raids at his residence are an indication that the BJP is afraid of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. He added that people across the country were fed-up with PM Modi's actions and policies and were seeking a change in Kejriwal.
Manish Sisodia is holding a press conference, one day after CBI conducted a raid at his Delhi residence in connection with the now-withdrawn New Excise Policy.
Yesterday, Sisodia had said that he welcomes CBI investigation and that he will fully cooperate. AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had said that CBI won't find anything against Sisodia.
Addressing an Important Press Conference | LIVE https://t.co/CJ0JPQmHt9
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 20, 2022
As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s raid at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence was underway on Friday, the CM and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal started a media address by congratulating the nation over a front-page news report published by the New York Times on the AAP government’s efforts to improve Delhi’s education system.
Kejriwal then made it clear that the CBI’s action against Sisodia was expected and that his party will not back down from what he increasingly sees as its role: a challenger to the Narendra Modi-led BJP.
During his eight-minute address, Kejriwal mentioned the CBI’s raid only once – just to say that the central agency should be allowed to do its job, claiming that they would not find anything against education minister Sisodia.
Since the AAP swept the Punjab Assembly election early this year, thereby becoming only the second party after the Congress to be in power in more than one state, Kejriwal and his party have been more than willing to take on Modi and the BJP head-on.
In several speeches, be it in the Delhi Assembly or during his rallies in the poll-bound Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, Kejriwal has not shied away from naming Modi and going after him – something he avoided since the AAP lost most of the seats it contested in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Mallica Joshi writes
From dry days and waivers to issues not being discussed with the council of ministers and the L-G — a Directorate of Vigilance report on alleged irregularities in the new excise policy and its implementation states that officials did not follow procedures and tender terms and tried to provide undue benefits to liquor licencees, it is learnt.
One of the cases the report zeroes in on is the refund of Rs 30 crore earnest money (EMD) to a licencee who had bid to set up shops at Delhi airport, officials said. When bidders were given licences, the policy stated that only those who are not successful in bidding would be refunded the EMD. The excise department, however, extended refunds to bidders who despite being successful, could not get a no-objection certificate from the Airport Authority. Officials said the planning department had raised “serious concerns” regarding the refund.
The minister, Manish Sisodia, however, said the EMD should be refunded if the applicant fails to obtain NOC from airport authority in 30 days’ time. In any case, if the bidder does not get an NOC, the offer has to be given to next bidder, he said. Sources said he told officials there is no loss and the clarity will encourage a genuine bidder to bid. The clause to refund the EMD was passed after licences were awarded. Mallica Joshi and Gayathri Mani report
Fifteen people, including Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, figure in the CBI’s FIR filed in connection with the now scrapped 2021-22 Delhi excise policy. These involve business owners as well as senior bureaucrats including IAS officer Arava Gopi Krishna, Anand Tiwari, Pankaj Bhatnagar, and others.
The Delhi government services department shifted 12 IAS officers between departments on Friday.
This came hours after CBI conducted a raid at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s house in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy.
Those transferred include special secretary of health and family welfare Udit Prakash Rai, against who Lt-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena had recently recommended the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to take action against for allegedly accepting a Rs 50 lakh bribe. Rai has been transferred to the administrative reforms department as its special secretary, the order said. Read more here
The AAP and its leaders reacted angrily to the CBI searches Friday at the home of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal spearheading the pushback against the Centre.
“Delhi’s model of education and health are being discussed all over the world. They want to stop it. That is why they are raiding and arresting our Education and Health ministers. In the past 75 years, whoever tried to do work was stopped. That is why India has been left behind. We will not let Delhi’s good work stop,” Kejriwal said in a Twitter post, shortly after CBI officers landed at Sisodia’s doorstep.
Hours later, the Chief Minister, addressing a press conference, mentioned the campaign he had launched on Wednesday “to make India number 1”.
The party, he said, is launching a phone number to which people can give a missed call to become part of the mission. Read the full report here
AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, known as the brain behind remodelling of the Delhi education system, is at the centre of a CBI case involving the now scrapped excise policy. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP’s spirited defence of Sisodia, hailing him as “India’s best education minister”, is rooted in several key projects he has spearheaded — from happiness and desbhakti curriculum in Delhi government schools to setting up of two universities exclusively for sports and entrepreneurship. Gayatri Mani reports
The CBI on Friday raided the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the Delhi government’s now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
The chain of events culminating in the CBI action was set in motion on July 8, when Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar submitted a report to Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, accusing Sisodia of providing undue benefits to liquor vend licensees in lieu of “kickbacks” and “commissions”, which were allegedly used by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Punjab Assembly elections in February. Read more
After the CBI conducted raids at Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence on Friday over the alleged irregularities in the AAP government's now withdrawn new excise policy, Sisodia said, "A CBI team came in the morning and searched the entire house. My computer and phone have beeb seized. My family cooperated with the CBI team. We have done nothing wrong and are not scared."
"We know that the CBI is being misused. It is being controlled from the top. Everyone knows that by controlling CBI, BJP wants to stop the good work done by AAP. Hum kattar imandaar hain. We built schools and hospital... Lakhon logon ki duayen hain hamare saath. The centre can misuse CBI as much as it wants, we will not stop our good work," Sisodia said.
After the CBI conducted raids at Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence on Friday, Sisodia said that the agency was being misused and "controlled from the top." The raids were in connection to alleged irregularities in the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government's now-withdrawn new excise policy.
The CBI’s move to conduct a raid at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence Friday in connection with alleged irregularities in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s now-withdrawn new excise policy has followed a string of investigations that the central agency has launched against the AAP ministers and their aides in various cases since 2015.
In a number of these cases so far the CBI has filed chargesheets, even as the agency has also closed several cases for lack of evidence. In December 2015, ten months after the AAP had first stormed to power in Delhi by bagging 67 of the total 70 Assembly seats, the CBI raided the office premises of CM Kejriwal’s then principal secretary Rajendar Kumar in a case of alleged corruption. The raid had sparked a major row that saw a livid Kejriwal calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “coward and a psychopath” over it. Deeptiman Tiwary reports
The CBI on Friday raided the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the Delhi government’s now-withdrawn Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22. What is the case? What has the CBI said? Read our Explained
Sisodia 'best education minister of Independent India', says Punjab CM; slams CBI raid (Eds: Adds more quotes, reax of opposition leaders) Chandigarh, Aug 19 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday lauded Manish Sisodia as the "best education minister of Independent India" as he slammed the CBI raid at the Delhi deputy chief minister's residence over the Excise Policy 2021-22.
On August 18, The New York Times published a story on the front page of its international edition titled, 'Our children are worth it', highlighting the "broader transformation of Delhi's education system" during the Aam Aadmi Party regime and noting that "the overhaul of the public schools in the capital of India has students clamouring to enrol".
"Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of Independent India. Today the largest US newspaper NYT (The New York Times) printed his photo on the front page. And today, (PM Narendra) Modi Ji sent CBI to his house. How will India progress like this?" Mann said in a tweet in Hindi. --PTI
The CBI has named 15 people in its FIR filed in connection with the now scrapped Delhi excise policy, including Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, whose name figures on the top of the list.
The FIR alleges: “Praveen Kumar Rai, Director, MHA… has conveyed directions of competent authority for enquiry into the matter of irregularities in framing and implementation of the excise policy of GNCTD of Delhi for the year 2021-22 by Central Bureau of Investigation. He has also forwarded a letter of L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena alleging irregularities in framing and implementation of the excise policy. The OM is enclosed herewith, which discloses that Manish Sisodia, Deputy CM; Arva Gopi Krishna, then Commissioner (Excise); Anand Tiwari, then Deputy Commissioner (Excise); and Pankaj Bhatnagar, Assistant Commissioner (Excise) were instrumental in recommending and taking decisions pertaining to excise policy for the year 2021-22 without approval of competent authority with an intention to extend undue favours to the licencees post tender.” Read more
The CBI’s move to conduct a raid at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence Friday in connection with alleged irregularities in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s now-withdrawn new excise policy has followed a string of investigations that the central agency has launched against the AAP ministers and their aides in various cases since 2015.
In a number of these cases so far the CBI has filed chargesheets, even as the agency has also closed several cases for lack of evidence. Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has listed 15 accused, including Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in its FIR on alleged excise scam. The central agency on Friday searched 21 locations, including the residence of Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.
Speaking with the media on the CBI raids at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence, BJP MLA Manoj Tiwari said had the logic behind their liquor policy been strong enough, Sisodia and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would have faced any central agency probe confidently. “Because it (liquor policy) was a scam… they revoked it,” he added.
Almost a month ago, the ball of a CBI investigation into the New Excise Policy was set rolling by Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena when he wrote to the Ministry of Home Affairs recommending a probe into the implementation of the policy. Here’s a timeline of the sequence of events.
July 8 — Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar submitted a report to the L-G Office. He alleged there were procedural lapses in the implementation of the policy and added post tender benefits were given to the licensees.
July 22 — Saxena wrote to the MHA, recommending a CBI inquiry in the matter. Click here for the full timeline
Holding a press briefing on CBI raid at Deputy CM Manish Sisodia residence, North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari Friday said if they (Delhi government) were so convinced about their liquor policy, why did they revoke it? 'They could have gone ahead with it irrespective of whatever happening around," he said.
AAP worker Sarita Singh, who was detained by Delhi Police on Friday, said that no matter how many inquiries are conducted, Delhi Deputy CM and Education Minister Manish Sisodia's spirit will not be broken. She added that CM Arvind Kejriwal's "politics of education and health" won't be stopped either.
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy. Protestors had gathered outside the deputy CM's residence, and around 70-80 of them, including four AAP MLAs and one former MLA were detained by Delhi Police.
Police deployment has increased outside Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence.
Meanwhile, the CBI is still inside his residence, conducting a raid in connection with the excise policy probe. The agency has been inside since 8:30 am this morning.
Delhi Police imposes Section 144 around Supreme Court and in the New Delhi district.
Earlier, the section had been imposed around Sisodia's residence and Mathura road area.
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy. Protestors had gathered outside the deputy CM's residence, and around 70-80 of them, including four AAP MLAs and one former MLA were detained by Delhi Police.
Delhi Police imposes section 144 around Sisodia's residence and Mathura road area.
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy. Protestors had gathered outside the deputy CM's residence, and around 70-80 of them, including four AAP MLAs and one former MLA were detained by Delhi Police.
Reacting to the CBI raids on Manish Sisodia's residence, Delhi Congress chief Anil Kumar said, 'The Congress party had been continuously demanding this raid. I want to tell the government that talks about health and education that when Delhi was suffering because of Covid, when there were deaths in the city and people were struggling for oxygen, Delhi’s Chief Minister and sharaab mantri were sitting with the liquor mafia and making a liquor policy which Congress has been continuously questioning… BJP has 8 MLAs in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, it has 7 MPs. How come none of them wrote any letters? There are questions to be asked of BJP politicians as well... I am happy that the CBI is investigating this, even though it’s late, and I’m sure that the sharaab mantri will be put behind bars. You haven’t got a licence for corruption by putting forward your education and health model.'
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.
Reacting to CBI's raids on Manish Sisodia's residence, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said, "The flip side to relentless misuse of agencies against political rivals is that even legitimate, rightful actions of agencies come under a cloud of suspicion. In the process, the corrupt get away hiding behind the ‘misuse’ argument and the honest end up paying the price."
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.
In a press conference on Friday, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, "Just day before yesterday, we announced that we will launch a mission to make India No 1. That has started to happen, it will take time, but it will happen. We will work together to make it happen. India got independence 75 years ago, people are asking why we are not at the top sp far? We have such intelligent people but we are still not at the top. If we keep voting for the same old parties, this will never happen, we will not rise."
"Today, Manish Sisodia was declared the best education minister in the world," he added. "But the CBI is raiding him today. There will be several roadblocks. This is not the first raid on Manish Sisodia. There have been several false cases -- against him, Satyendar Jain, and against Sisodia. They will not find anything. Let CBI do its job, they have orders from the top."
"Today, I am launching a number – 9510001000. All those who want to join the mission to make India number 1, give a missed call on this number. Spread the word, tell people and bring them along," Kejriwal said
"The US is the most powerful and richest country in the world. The New York Times is the biggest newspaper in that country. In Yesterday’s NYT, the front page carried a story on Delhi’s education model. It says that there is an education revolution underway at Delhi government schools, it says that the schools are improving, that children from private schools are shifting to government schools. This is a matter of pride for all Indians. In this story, the main photo on the front page is that of Manish Sisodia. This is something every world leader wants," said Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
"It is a matter of pride. Manish Sisodia is the best education story in the country. I can’t remember the last time a positive story about India made it to the front page of the NYT. The last story about India I remember was about the high number of Covid deaths in the country," he said.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said, "Delhi's education and health model is popular across world and country and they want to defame it, stop it... The country whose Prime Minister's thinking is so small that he doesn't allow work in the field of education and health... then how will you take the country forward... what vision do you have for the country?"
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.
Reacting to CBI's raids on Manish Sisodia's residence, BJP MP Gautam Gambhir said, "One by one, their (AAP's) misdeeds are coming out in the open. First it was law minister, the health minister, now it is the Deputy Chief Minister. Very soon the CM will have to answer to the people. The buck stops with him. Delhi will not tolerate such blatant abuse of power by the CM and his cohort. They have been selling dreams, now people are waking up."
The CBI on Friday morning searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.
Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary said that the CBI has registered a case against another corrupt minister, deputy CM Manish Sisodia, from Kejriwal's cabinet in the liquor scam.
He added that the Congress fought from the road to the investigating agency to prevent Delhi from becoming a drug capital.
The CBI on Friday carried out searches at 21 locations in Delhi-NCR, including Sisodia's residence, after registering an FIR in connection with the Delhi excise policy case.
Describing Manish Sisodia as the best education minister of Independent India, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said the CBI raid at the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister's residence was the reward for the Delhi government's good performance being appreciated globally.
"Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of Independent India. Today the largest US newspaper NYT printed his photo on the front page. And today Modi ji sent CBI to his house. How will India progress like this?" Mann said in a tweet in Hindi.
The CBI on Friday carried out searches at 21 locations in Delhi-NCR, including Sisodia's residence, after registering an FIR in connection with the Delhi excise policy case.
Other ministers in the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab too attacked the BJP-led Centre after the CBI raid at Sisodia's house.
"The Day no. 1 Newspaper of the no. 1 country in the world recognises Delhi govt's Education Model & @msisodia ji as best education minister ever. Same Morning CBI is sent to Manish ji' house by Shameless BJP. It proves BJP doesn't want India to have perfect govt Schools," Punjab's Minister of School Education and Jails, Harjot Singh Bains, said in a tweet.
Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra said "Today the largest newspaper in the US, NYT, printed his photo on the front page. And today Modi ji sent the CBI to his house..." (PTI)
North East Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said the way the Delhi government backtracked on the new liquor policy made it clear that there has been big corruption.
"I think CBI has delayed a bit, this action should have been bit earlier because anyone should not be allowed to sit on a constitutional post and loot Delhi," he said.
On The New York Times article praising the Delhi education model, Tiwari said the raid is not an action on education policy but on liquor policy.
Congress leader Alka Lamba said Manish Sisodia should reach Delhi and cooperate in the investigation.
"They kept on opposing the liquor policy that was of Shiela Dikshit ji's time. But ultimately they had to take back their liquor policy which was profit making liquor policy and implement the policy from her time," she said.
The CBI on Friday morning raided Delhi Deputy CM Sisodia's residence in connection with the probe into the now-withdrawn excise policy.
Reacting to the CBI raiding Manish Sisodia's residence, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said a corrupt person – no matter how much he portrays himself as honest – remains corrupt. “If there was no corruption in the liquor policy, why was it rolled back? Arvind Kejriwal is tweeting about education, but it is not education being talked about – it is AAP’s corruption in the liquor policy,” he said.The CBI on Friday morning raided Delhi Deputy CM Sisodia's residence in connection with the probe into the now-withdrawn excise policy.
The CBI raided Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence on Friday morning in connection with the probe into the Delhi government's now-withdrawn new excise policy.
Earlier, Sisodia announced on July 30, that the Delhi government’s ambitious new liquor policy (Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22) will be scrapped entirely and that from August 1, only government owned liquor vendors will be allowed to sell alcohol in the national capital.
This development came amidst the recently launched probe into the Delhi government’s excise department by the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW), due to alleged irregularities in its new liquor policy. Read more about the policy here
BJP leader Amit Malviya on Friday said that Delhi government's excise policy was "arbitrary" and had caused a "huge loss to the exchequer". He also asked why was the policy reversed immediately after Delhi L-G V K Saxena recommended a CBI probe into it, alleging irregularities.
The CBI on Friday morning raided Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence in connection with the excise policy case. The agency will also raid other locations across Delhi-NCR in connection with the same.
Soon after CBI raids were conducted at Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence on Friday morning, BJP leader and former minister in the AAP government Kapil Mishra said “two wickets had fallen and the third will soon”.
“I have been saying for the last five years that Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia and Arvind Kejriwal will all go to jail for corruption. Two wickets have fallen and the third thief will also be caught soon,” he tweeted.
Mishra alleged that Sisodia not just made money with the nexus of liquor mafia but also got liquor stores opened at several places, pushing many families towards alcoholism. Read more here
Reacting to CBI conducting raids at Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence, AAP MLA from Sangam Vihar, Dinesh Mohaniya said, "Basically, the BJP is very scared of the work being done by the Aam Aadmi Party, especially in the field of education. They want to stop all these things. If people are educated, they will know how harmful the BJP's politics are for the country. There will be no place for the BJP in the country. Their funda is to keep people uneducated. Sometimes ED, sometimes CBI, they want to derail the government."
The CBI on Friday morning raided Sisodia's residence in connection with the excise policy case.
Alleging that the excise policy case is linked to Telangana and 10-15 private players, BJP MP from West Delhi Parvesh Verma said that there will be an investigation into the places Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia visited, including hotels and restaurants.
The CBI on Friday morning conducted raids at Manish Sisodia's residence in connection with the excise policy case. Last month, Delhi L-G V K Saxena had recommended a CBI probe into the excise policy over alleged irregularities.
Reacting to CBI raiding Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence on Friday in connection with the excise policy case, AAP MLA from Timarpur Dilip Pandey said "This is a clear announcement of the BJP's fear. They want to stop the news of the success of the education revolution in Delhi but the revolution will keep on going, that will not stop."