Will raise issue of non-declaration of assets by AAP MLAs with Lokpal: Gupta

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Will raise issue of non-declaration of assets by AAP MLAs with Lokpal: Gupta

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta has said the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) will raise the issue of non-declaration of assets and liabilities by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs with the soon to be appointed India's first Lokpal. 

Gupta said that the party will file complains to Lokpal about how the AAP moral and legal structure has completely been eaten away by termite of corruption.  "We will seek Lokpal's intervention in issues such as involvement of Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain in Hawala case, water tanker scam, premium bus service scam, home delivery of ration scam, appointments in government and a host of other serious issues of corruption and irregularities," he said.

Gupta further said that Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal who came to power on the plank of honesty, transparency and probity in public life spent major part of his time in covering the corrupt practices of his subordinates.  BJP MLAs will seek Lokpal's intervention in matters of corruption which have been hanging due to procedural delays, he added.     

Gupta said that Gopal Rai is falsely blaming the Cente for bringing up the Bill late. "The fact remains that Congress used every trick to delay the appointment of the Lokpal due its vested interests.  It continued to ensure delay for one technical or the other reason," he said. 

"It is false to say that Central Government is sitting over the Bill for the last many years.  The fact remains that the Bill introduced in Delhi Assembly on 4th December, 2015 has not seen light of the day due to inefficiency of the Delhi Government," he said, adding that a RTI has revealed that it is still lying with Delhi Government and shunting from one department to another. 

Accusing AAP of politicising the constitutional post of Lokpal, he said that the issues which AAP leader Gopal Rai is threatening to take up with Lokpal such as Ruffle and Sahara- Birla diaries have already been rejected by the Supreme Court.  

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