IANS/New Delhi
Former India player Kirti Azad yesterday alleged massive financial irregularities in Delhi’s cricket board even as the city government said it had ordered a probe into its working.
Addressing a press conference with former captain Bishan Singh Bedi, Azad sought an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate into the working of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA).
While Azad refrained from naming anyone for the alleged bungling, Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) again sought the sacking of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who for years headed the DDCA.
Simultaneously, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium would head a commission to probe the functioning of the DDCA.
Jaitley has denied the corruption charges hurled against him, and dubbed Azad, a leader - like him of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a “Trojan Horse”.
Azad repeatedly underlined that he was not targeting any individual and that he had nothing to do with the attacks on Jaitley by the AAP, which he said “was born the other day” and was only echoing what he had been saying for eight years.
He alleged that the DDCA gave contracts to fake companies, paying them millions of rupees in cash and had fudged the audit of accounts.
He played a video produced by WikiLeaks4India which claimed that some of the companies favoured by the DDCA had given fictitious addresses.
“If the companies were fake, surely the bank accounts into which the money was paid must also be fake,” he said.
BJP MP and former cricketer Kirti Azad addresses a press conference in New Delhi yesterday.
