NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday claimed that Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal had made a health scam worth 382 crores, ahead of the Delhi legislative assembly election.
As the Delhi is moving ahead for the election, several parties are claiming that the other candidates have made some scams in the past or is trying to violate the polls policies.
While addressing a press conference, Congress leader Ajay Maken made big claims against Kejriwal and said that the AAP was made on the premise that they would fight against corruption, expose corruption and even alleged the oldest party of corruption on the basis of the CAG reports.
“Right now, there are 14 CAG reports. Not just one or two, but 14 CAG reports. Each report, one after another, contains such serious allegations of corruption against the Kejriwal government. The LG has said that Kejriwal is obstructing, and Kejriwal claims that the LG is obstructing. But the benefit is going to Kejriwal because he is being exposed,” Maken said.
“So today, we want to ask the same Kejriwal, to tell us about these pages filled with corruption, one of which is the 14th report, which talks about health scams. In that report, I found and observed a scam worth 382 crores directly linked to Kejriwal – a scam of 382 crores,” he added.
He also claimed that according to the CAG report, only 3 hospitals have been prepared in the last 10 years and all of them were started in Congress time.
The Congress leader further stated in Indira Gandhi Hospital, Rs. 314 crores more were spent than the tender, Rs 41 crores additional were spent on Burari Hospital and Rs 26 crores were spent on Maulana Azad Dental Hospital than the tender.
“The CAG reports ways that a sum of Rs 382.52 crores more than the tender was spent on three hospitals. This is the reason that Arvind Kejriwal did not let the CAG report be presented in the Vidhan Sabha. I am making a direct allegation that this is the reason that the CAG report was stopped,” he added.
Delhi heads to the polls on 5th February, with votes set to be counted on 8th February. A three-way contest is expected between AAP, BJP, and Congress. While Congress, once dominant in Delhi, has failed to win a single seat in the last two elections, AAP secured a landslide victory in 2020, winning 62 out of 70 seats, leaving the BJP with eight.
