New Delhi: The arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar by CBI on Tuesday is “unprecedented” and it is the lowest level to which the Centre has stooped since 1991 when an elected government first came to power in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday.
Reacting angrily to the arrest of Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer of UT cadre, Sisodia alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was misusing his powers to destabilise the Delhi Chief Minister’s Office as AAP was surging ahead in many poll-bound states like Punjab, Gujarat and Goa.
“The arrest of Kumar is part of a conspiracy to paralyse the Chief Minister’s office and the AAP government. Prime Minister Modi has hatred towards AAP government and the arrest of two senior officials of Chief Minister’s Office is part of the conspiracy,” Sisodia said addressing a press conference. Kumar, an IIT alumnus, Deputy Secretary Tarun Sharma and three other private persons were arrested in connection with a case of showing undue favours to a private company in award of government contracts worth over Rs 50 crore during the previous Congress government.
