The political war between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) does not seem to end any time soon. The AAP-led Delhi government on Tuesday defended its decision to pay senior advocate Ram Jethmalani from the exchequer, after the BJP equated the move with corruption.
Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Mr. Manish Sisodia said Chief Minister Avind Kejriwal was not fighting a “personal land dispute” but was initiating an inquiry against the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) for corruption.
The comment was made on the government’s move to pay a legal bill of around ₹3.4 crore that Mr. Kejriwal has to foot in a defamation suit filed against him by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Mr. Jaitley had filed the suit seeking ₹10 crore in damages after the Chief Minister and five other AAP leaders accused him of alleged irregularities and financial bungling in the DDCA, of which the former was the president for about 13 years until 2013.
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