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Deputy CM writes to L-G; BJP says letter shows AAP’s frustration over ongoing inquiries
Deputy CM writes to L-G; BJP says letter shows AAP’s frustration over ongoing inquiries
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote to Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Wednesday demanding a CBI probe into an alleged toll tax scam of ₹6,000 crore in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
“I have written to the L-G demanding a CBI probe into the toll tax scam of ₹6,000 crore in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The money collected from 10 lakh commercial vehicles coming to Delhi everyday was embezzled in connivance,” Mr. Sisodia tweeted.
Hitting out at the Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said Mr. Sisodia’s letter to the L-G reflected the Deputy Chief Minister’s “frustration over the ongoing inquiries into scams in the Excise Department and construction of school classrooms”.
‘Large-scale scam’
On Tuesday, AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak – who is also the party’s MCD in-charge – said there was a large-scale scam in the collection of toll taxes by the civic body, adding that the scam took place under the “patronage of the BJP”.
He said the tender to collect the toll tax was given to a company named MEP Infrastructure Developers Ltd in 2017 at ₹1,200 crore per year, for a period of five years.
“The company only paid the entire money in the first year; from next year, it did not pay more than 10 or 20% of the entire…
