Siphoning money, hawala transactions through hundreds of shell companies, hiding financial details from the Income Tax Department and the Election Commission — sacked Aam Aadmi Party minister Kapil Mishra’s latest salvo against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal this morning listed a huge array of financial irregularities.
The dramatic series of allegations ended with Mr Mishra saying if Mr Kejriwal did not step down by this evening, he would come to his house “and drag you by your collar to Tihar jail”. Minutes later, the leader, whose hunger-strike entered its fifth day today, fainted and had to be taken to the hospital.
Mishra — who adopted an allegation-a-day strategy since his suspension from the party last week — promised to provide documents that would substantiate each one of his charges.
“Kejriwal hid many things like hawala transactions, donations, forming shell companies, playing with taxpayers’ money and hiding information from Income Tax Department and the Election Commission,” Mr Mishra said at the latest media conference this morning, where he had promised to reveal “shocking details” of corruption and scam.
Today’s allegations by Mr Mishra, though, are not entirely fresh. Former AAP member Neil Haslam, who had been sacked a couple of years ago, has levelled the same charges at the party. Mr Haslam, who used to be part of AAP’s media cell, holds frequent media conferences, in which he has accused the party and Mr Kejriwal of multiple instances of corruption.
