The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday suspended sacked Delhi minister Kapil Mishra from primary membership in the party. Mishra was also suspended from the AAP’s core political affairs committee. After he had been removed from the Cabinet on Friday, Mishra had alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had received Rs 2 crore from Cabinet minister Satyendar Jain in front of him. He has also claimed that he received threatening messages since he went public with the information.

Kejriwal on Monday tweeted that the “truth will prevail”. He said a special session of the state Assembly starts on Tuesday.

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The former water minister of Delhi also dismissed the Aam Aadmi Party’s accusation that he was a “colluding with the Bharatiya Janata Party”. “Everyone knows I have been the most vocal critic of the BJP and Modiji in AAP,” he said, adding that they could not prove that he was a “Modi agent”.

Adding to the claims he has made so far, Mishra further said that AAP had misused election funding during the Punjab Assembly elections in February. He also challenged the AAP’s Political Affairs Committee to try to remove him from the party after their meeting at 7 pm on Monday.

“Let the files and documents of all ministers be made public. We shall then see who should be suspended, he said. “The public will decide who will be in the party and who will be removed...“We considered Arvind Kejriwal god...He is no longer the same person,” he added.

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Mishra said he will meet authorities of the Central Bureau of Investigation at 11.30 am on Tuesday and lodge an FIR against Kejriwal about the corruption allegations against him in the alleged water tanker scam. On Sunday, Mishra had submitted his complaint to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, after which Baijal had forward it to the Delhi Anti-Corruption Bureau and sought a report within a week

Earlier on Monday, Mishra claimed he had provided more information to the ACB to bolster his allegations, but Delhi ACB chief MK Meena said the AAP leader had not submitted any complaint regarding the Rs 2 crore he had alleged that Kejriwal had taken from Jain.

Mishra’s allegations came after he was removed from the post of water minister for allegedly submitting several inflated bills. The decision is believed to have been made at a Cabinet meeting, but Mishra said the step was taken by Kejriwal alone after the water tanker scam report was submitted.

Mishra’s allegations include:

  • Arvind Kejriwal took Rs 2 crore from AAP leader Satyendar Jain
  • A Rs 50-crore deal was arranged for Kejriwal’s brother-in-law. “Satyendar Jain told me that he has arranged a 7-acre land deal in Chattarpur for Arvind Kejriwal’s brother-in-law’s Bansal family. Being a PWD minister, he also fudged bills up to Rs 10 crore in the department to benefit Kejriwal’s relative,” Mishra told reporters.
  • There was corruption during the Punjab Assembly polls
  • Sanjay Singh was involved in lobbying for overseas funding for the party
  • Several members of the party’s PAC are corrupt
  • Public money was misused in the water tanker scam, and Kejriwal delayed the report in the concerned matter