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Sirsa gives AAP 24-hour ultimatum over ₹22,000 crore rice scam
Delhi minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Sunday gave AAP leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Sanjeev Jha 24 hours to withdraw their claims of a ₹22,000 crore rice scam and apologise, or face legal…
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Delhi minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Sunday gave AAP leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Sanjeev Jha 24 hours to withdraw their claims of a ₹22,000 crore rice scam and apologise, or face legal action. Bharadwaj had alleged that a BJP-run Delhi government department, an Assam-based corporation, and a private firm in Haryana diverted subsidised rice meant for Delhi’s poor to the open market, making ₹143 crore weekly. The arrangement, he said, was planned for three years. Sirsa called the allegations false and intended to defame him. Players named in the accusation have not commented.
The Indian Opinion
The rice scam charges are the latest round in Delhi’s endless political slugfest. Both AAP and BJP have cried scam before, but the public rarely sees the promised documents. Bharadwaj says papers will be made public. Sirsa has called his bluff with a legal threat. The only test now is whether those documents see the light of day. Until then, it is just another war of allegations without evidence.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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