New Delhi: Taking potshots at the Congress and AAP, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Thursday alleged that the two parties gave clean chits to each other about six months ago and are now exposing their corruption.
Addressing a press conference, Trivedi said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has given a statement for the AAP’s liquor scam that it was an open corruption and the party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is corrupt.
He (Kejriwal) is giving certificates of honesty to himself even after that, he added.
“I mention both of these statements because these are two very different kinds of scandals in Indian politics. The liquor scam is unique because there has been no other scandal in politics where the government formulated a policy, then withdrew it, and still defended it. We have never seen an example like this. The National Herald case is significant because a party has committed corruption within its own institution,” he said.
Sudhanshu Trivedi also pointed out that in both cases, BJP has no involvement.
“The National Herald case began in October 2013 when the Congress government was in power. The first accusations in the liquor scam were made by Congress. Now, one thing is clear to the public: both parties are lying. Just six months ago, they were giving each other a clean chit, but now they are exposing each other’s corruption,” he said.
Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks, Kejriwal posted on X and said, “Modi ji puts people in jail even by making fake cases like liquor scam. Why haven’t you and your family been arrested in open and shut cases like National Herald? How did Robert Vadra get a clean chit from the BJP? It is better if you don’t preach on fear and bravery. The country knows who is a coward and who is brave.”
BJP’s Sudhanshu Trivedi also slammed the AAP Chief over his remarks on Haryana over Yamuna Water.
He claimed that the funds available for cleaning the Yamuna were not utilized.
“Perhaps no lie, even in an India-Pakistan war, has been told as Kejriwal accused other states of poisoning their rivers. The central government allocated Rs 8,500 crore for the cleaning of the Yamuna, but instead of using it, they are trying to create confusion through negative publicity. Now, it has come down to the pride and prestige of the people of Delhi,” he said.
