New Delhi: The Centre declared as “unconstitutional and illegal” the constitution of a commission of inquiry to probe alleged financial irregularities in Delhi District Cricket Assoc-iation affairs by the AAP government in the national capital.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal hit back, saying the commission set up by the AAP government was as per the law and the Centre’s opinion was not binding. A letter issued by the office of LG Najeeb Jung on Thursday had said the Union home ministry had held the notification issued by the directorate of vigilance, Government of Delhi, was “unconstitutional, illegal and therefore has no legal effect”.
The rejection of the Delhi government’s decision to probe DDCA affairs comes on top of a bitter fight between Arvind Kejriwal government and the Centre after the CBI raid on the Delhi Secretariat a month ago. The raid stoked a clash between the two, with Mr Kejriwal alleging it was meant to seize some files purportedly containing details of alleged corruption in the DDCA when finance minister Arun Jaitley was its president between 1999 and 2013. The CM followed up his accusation with his government’s decision to set up a probe under the Commissions of Inquiry Act headed by former solicitor-general Gopal Subramanium, who contended the Delhi government has the authority to set up such a probe, and that he would go ahead with it.
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