Kirti Azad escalates DDCA fight, raises more charges against Arun Jaitley: Highlights

Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirti Azad continued to raise more serious charges against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who once headed the DDCA body.

Kirti Azad

New Delhi: Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirti Azad, Monday, continued to raise more serious charges against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who once headed the DDCA body.

While addressing a press conference on the alleged DDCA scam, Azad said:

1. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley must take moral responsibilities for irregularities in DDCA occurred during his regime.
2. I presented my points in Parliament only after Speaker allowed me to do so.
3. I did not raise the DDCA issue in Parliament on instructions of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
4. No Congress representative has spoken to me since my suspension.
5. As far as I know, there has been no audit of accounts after 2011-12.
6. Serious Fraud Investigation Office report asked Delhi cricket body multiple times for files.
7. Dubious payments were made to shell companies.
8. Why has CBI not acted upon my information yet?
9. BJP spokesperson must not level false charges and malign party image. They should be careful while speaking in public.
10. Multiple firms which dealt with DDCA are mere dummy corporations.
11. I have made CBI's work easier, will continue to do my work.
12. Former DDCA president Arun Jaitley did not sign the balance sheet and call meeting.
13. There are more multiple DDCA accounts which have not been audited.
14. DDCA scam is not a BJP issue. It is about corruption in sports.