Kiran Bedi shouldn't have done it: Kejriwal

NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal has disapproved of his Team Anna colleague Kiran Bedi's overcharging her hosts by inflating travel bills saying she was wrong in doing so.

Asked about the controversy over Bedi's flying economy class and charging her host-organisers for business class tickets, Kejriwal told "Aaj Tak's "Seedhi Baat" programme that "she should not have done it. She has said it will not happen again. I would not have done what Kiran Bedi did".

However, he said she had only committed a "technical irregularity" and was not a personal beneficiary of the money.

Kejriwal alleged government was spending crores of rupees and planting stories in media to separate Anna Hazare from him and other prominent team members Kiran Bedi and Prashant Bhushan.

"There's a conspiracy to separate Anna Hazare from Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan. The government is spending crores of rupees for this. Stories are being planted in the media," Kejriwal was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the channel.