Enforcement Directorate raids against AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj have fueled bickering between the two poltical rival parties BJP and opposition AAP with both now seen attacking each other with fresh volley of accusations.ย
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While ย BJP on Tuesday said that the Enforcement Directorate’s raids against AAP Delhi unit chief and former health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj have exposed the “medical scam” under the previous Arvind Kejriwal government, the AAP leadership has said this is to divert the attention of people from the issue of PM Narender Modi’s educational degrees disclosure.ย
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AAP leader Atishi alleged that raids by ED on Saurabh Bhardwaj ‘s residence were ‘ridiculous’ and ‘100 percent fake’.This, she alleged is a strategy to divert the attention from the ‘row’ over Prime Minister Narender Modi’s education degree. The AAp she asserted has not committed a single rupee of corruption adding that AAP is ‘Kattar Imaandar”. The party is not scared of these arids, she said in a press conference today.
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On the other hand, BJP contends that after the ED raid, now the “panicked” AAP leaders are saying Bharadwaj was not a minister when the decision was made to build the hospitals, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said and added, “While that may be true, the real question is can the AAP deny the fact that Bharadwaj was a minister during the actual construction of the hospitals.”ย
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The AAP government in Delhi was involved in the “scam” in the construction of hospitals and the purchase of medicines and equipment, the BJP leader said in a video statement. An investigation into the “scam” in the purchase of medicines is already being conducted by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), he said The Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out searches at the premises of Bharadwaj and some private contractors as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged scam in health infrastructure projects during the previous AAP government in Delhi, official sources said.
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“We have said it earlier also that the previous AAP government led by Arvind Kejriwal looted Delhi through scams. Now the party is trying to fool people in other states,” Sachdeva said.The ED raids against Bharadwaj have exposed the “medical scam” under the previous AAP government, he said.Sachdeva said that it does not matter who was the minister at the time of the “scam” because the ED is probing irregularities in the construction of the hospitals, not the decision to do so.
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โCan Saurabh Bharadwaj, who calls the ED investigation fake, take an oath and say that as Health Minister, he never approved any emergency or additional tender purchases related to construction work,” the Delhi BJP president challenged the AAP.
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