BJP says DDCA probe panel head's letter to NSA is 'drama at behest of Arvind Kejriwal'

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday slammed the one-man Commission of Inquiry's communication to NSA  Ajit Doval seeking his help in DDCA probe and described it as an exercise in "cheap publicity and propaganda."

Former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium has written a letter to NSA asking him to make available five officers each from IB, CBI and Delhi Police for his probe into alleged irregularities in DDCA.

Accusing former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium of working at the behest of the AAP government, BJP asked Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to read the Constitution, alleging that his several decisions have been "unconstitutional".

"It is not within the legal purview of the Delhi government to probe the Delhi cricket board (DDCA) which is registered as a society under the Company Act. Subramanium is doing such drama at the behest of Kejriwal who is used to taking unconstitutional decisions," BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said.

"It is nothing but part of its propaganda. Kejriwal should read the Constitution so that he can focus on what his government should be doing, like sanitation and preventing dengue from recurring, and not what it should not be doing," he said.

Sharma recalled that the AAP government had appointed Swati Maliwal as Delhi Commission for Women chairperson in an "unconstitutional" manner before they did it again in a proper way after being told by the LG.

Accusing Kejriwal of raking up the DDCA issue to deflect attention from the CBI probe against his principal secretary, he said the chief minister has a "history" of working to save the guilty and cited the example of the cases of two former law ministers, both arrested on criminal charges and now out on bail.

"AAP is in fact 'pakhandi' aam aadmi party (PAAP)," he said in a dig.

The more muck Kejriwal will throw at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and finance minister Arun Jaitley, the more he will sink into it, Sharma said.

However, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has defended Subramanium's communication, saying he has the powers and the right to seek officers from anywhere in connection with his probe.