Kejriwal launches fresh attack on Jaitley & PM Modi; asks what they are "hiding" about DDCA

NEW DELHI: Launching a fresh attack on Arun Jaitley and the Centre, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked why the Finance Minister is "afraid" of an inquiry commission on DDCA.

"We are not afraid of your raid, then why are you afraid of the inquiry commission, Modi/Jaitley ji? People want to know what all of you are hiding about DDCA," Kejriwal tweeted. "We cooperated in your raid, now you also cooperate in the probe of inquiry commission," he said.

Delhi lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung is learned to have recommended to the Centre that the commission of inquiry appointed by the Arvind Kejriwal government under Gopal Subramaniam to probe alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) be set aside as it was legally invalid.

कुछ चैनल कह रहे हैं "केजरीवाल का आयोग अवैध"। तो क्या मोदी जी की CBI रेड "वैध"?

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 25, 2015

हमें आपकी रेड से डर नहीं लगता,आपको enquiry commission से क्यों डर लगता है मोदी/जेटली जी?जनता जानना चाहती है आप सब DDCA में क्या छुपा रहे हैं

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 25, 2015

हमने आपकी रेड में सहयोग किया, आप भी enquiry commission में सहयोग कीजिए।

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 25, 2015

Sources said Jung, in a communication to the home ministry on Wednesday evening, argued that the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 empowers only the Centre and state governments to appoint a commission of inquiry. Delhi being a Union Territory short of full statehood, a commission of inquiry may be ordered only with the concurrence of the Centre, through the LG, he said.

Sources pointed out that Jung cited the inquiry into the CNG fitness kit scam set up by the Kejriwal government earlier which was set aside by the Centre on the same ground.

Sources at the Centre also claimed that the terms of reference of the Subramaniam panel were too vague and did not fulfill the requirement laid down under the Commission of Inquiry Act. The Act says that a commission can be set up to investigate "any definite matter of public importance".