Armed with DDCA probe panel chief Chetan Sanghi's letter, BJP leader Vijender Gupta has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh demanding a probe into the alleged "conspiracy" of the top leadership of ruling AAP to "implicate" Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Sanghi had written to Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi that he was under "pressure" from various "stakeholders" for naming some individuals, including a "certain VIP", in his report on the affairs of the cricket body.
In his letter to Rajnath Singh, Gupta stressed that the inquiry is essential to "expose the nexus" between the AAP Government and its senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra, who was also a member of the panel.
"This undue pressure was being put on Mehra on behalf of top leadership of the AAP Government. It needs to be probed who was this top leadership in the AAP Government. It needs to be ascertained why this huge pressure was being made," Gupta, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, said.
Mehra had earlier dismissed allegations as false and "politically motivated" and added "various stakeholders including a host of former cricketers gave representations to us to which we applied our mind, there was no pressure."
It appears that the draft of the entire report, submitted in November last year, was "ready even before the start of the inquiry."
The Centre must find out, Gupta wrote, if the AAP government had been "scheming to implicate" Jaitley in false charges to malign his reputation and the Union Government.
