New Delhi: In yet another attack on Arun Jaitley, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday alleged that the Finance Minister, during his tenure as the chief of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) in 2011, had "pressured" the then Police Commissioner to "close" an investigation involving a cricket club of a private bank.
In a press conference, the AAP released two letters which they claimed were written by Jaitley, to former Delhi Police Commissioner BK Gupta and then Special Commissioner Ranjit Narayan. In the letters, Jaitley allegedly asked them to "fairly" deal with the matter and "close" the case since "DDCA has done no wrong". The letter to Gupta is dated October 27, 2011 while the one written to Narayan is dated May 5, 2012.
In the letter to Narayan, Jaitley is quoted as writing that "some persons have been repeatedly approaching Delhi Police with complaints in relation to the identity of the Syndicate Bank Cricket Club.
AAP leader Ashutosh claimed that the letters "punctured" the Finance Minister's repeated assertions that he was in no way connected to any wrongdoing in the DDCA, which he headed from 1999 to 2013.
Rubbishing the allegations, BJP Spokesperson GVL Narsimha Rao asked as to what was wrong in Jaitley writing a letter to the police commissioner. "He was not even in power so the charge does not stick."
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