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AAP moving Supreme Court to demand SIT on poll funds

by IBNS 03 Feb 2015, 07:25 am

New Delhi, Feb 3 (IBNS): The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) , which on Monday rejected allegations made against it by a breakaway group of receiving Rs 2 crore donations from bogus companies, is moving the Supreme Court on Tuesday demanding constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the funds of all three major fighting polls in Delhi- BJP, Congress and AAP.

AAP architect and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: "5 AAP leaders will go to SC today at 10.30 am to submit an application for an SIT probe into funding of BJP, Cong n AAP."

AAP earlier called allegations against them as 'malicious and false propaganda'.

AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said black money in elections and politics is a serious issue and it should be probed.

AAP earlier also called the campaign against them as the handiwork of BJP's dirty tricks department.

"The BJP and some mysterious fronts created by it close to Delhi assembly elections have unleashed a malicious and false propaganda on the funding of the Aam Aadmi Party," the AAP said in a statement.

"Since Monday morning a defamatory smear campaign is being run against the AAP to confuse the people and divert attention from important issues concerning the people of Delhi. The AAP is the only political party in India whose entire donations are in public domain and fully transparent. Every rupee donated to the party is displayed on its website for public scrutiny. The AAP funding has already been probed twice by successive central governments, both the UPA and now the NDA government," it said.

The AAP also challenged the BJP-led NDA central government to probe its funding from any of the agencies.

AAP leader Yogendra Yadav tweeted: "Same old pattern - false allegations just five days before polls in the hope that something sticks. Desperate tricks of a bad loser?"

The AAP has been accused by some former members of collecting funds from companies which are fake, even as the BJP was quick to take up the allegation to attack AAP for trying to project itself as the only clean outfit in politics.

The Aam Aadmi Volunteer Action Munch (AVAM), comprising former party members, on Monday in a media briefing alleged that the AAP got funds worth Rs 2 crore from companies which were only trying to evade tax.

AVAM member Gopal Goyal said the company in question has not earned a single rupee and yet funded AAP.

Four transaction IDs of Rs 50 lakh each were also mentioned by AVAM.

They said the director  of the company lives in run down house and yet is the so called director of 11 companies.

BJP leaders Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal on the other hand in a press meet said the AAP has been labelling all as corrupt while it itself was mired in such donations.

AAP earlier had said that it has received  Rs 1.25 crore as donation during a  fund raising event  recently.

AAP claims that all AAP donations are transparently published on the website and AAP is the only party that has voluntarily agreed to come under the RTI law. With has almost raised Rs 30 crore for Delhi elections.