New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said on Monday that the arrest of East Delhi AAP leader Deepak Singla, following an ED investigation into a major bank scam, has exposed yet another dark face of the Aam Aadmi Party.

The Delhi BJP President stated that while the “bribery and loot” involving AAP National Convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders have remained a matter of public discussion, the ugly face of other AAP leaders involved in buying properties with black money, tax evasion, and bank loan frauds has also surfaced now.

He said that Delhiites are shocked by the case involving Deepak Singla’s bank loans worth hundreds of crores and the alleged illegal misuse of those funds.

This is not the first case of financial wrongdoing by an AAP leader. From former Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain to Punjab Minister Sanjeev Arora, numerous names and their alleged misdeeds have already come to light.

Delhi BJP Media Head Praveen Shankar Kapoor said the AAP appears to have become a sanctuary for economic offenders.

At a press conference, Kapoor, the Delhi BJP President, stated that the fake companies and bribery-money operations allegedly run by Jain came to light in 2018–19, but Kejriwal dismissed the matter, terming it a political conspiracy.

Thereafter, AAP leaders continued to be arrested one after another in bribery scandals, while the party kept calling them politically motivated cases.

However, the recent cases involving Punjab minister Arora and Delhi AAP leader Singla, involving alleged tax evasion and bank scams, present a new face of corruption before Delhi and the nation.

The Delhi BJP President said it is difficult to imagine that a state minister is being arrested for a GST scam, while leaders who have contested three elections are allegedly taking bank loans and committing fraud.

Sachdeva said the country hopes that although Kejriwal gave full protection to financial scam accused Satyendar Jain, he will now at least expel Sanjeev Arora and Deepak Singla from the party.

–IANS

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