NEW DELHI, Jan 10: Lashing out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after his fresh attack on the Modi government over investigations into the Delhi cricket body, the BJP on Saturday asked him to be “ready to go to jail” in the defamation case filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Accusing him of taking “one unconstitutional step after another”, the BJP said Kejriwal’s government has been a “complete failure” and the chief minister has been resorting to levelling politically -motivated charges against party leaders to “hide” its failures.
“Kejriwal and his associates should be prepared to go to jail. His government has taken a number of unconstitutional decisions to hide its failures and corruption,” BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.
In a new confrontation between the Centre and Kejriwal, an inquiry initiated by the Delhi government into alleged corruption in the main cricket administration body for the capital has been declared unconstitutional.
Kejriwal’s has already been sued for defamation by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, whom he has accused of facilitating vast corruption during his 13 years as the head of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA).
The Centre and Kejriwal have established an epic hostility in the last year, with both sides accusing each other of over-stepping boundaries and impeding the governance of Delhi.
