Kejriwal Swindled Rs 2,026 Cr By means of Scrapped Liquor Coverage: CAG Report’s Explosive Declare Forward Of Delhi Polls | India Information
CAG Report On Delhi Liquor Coverage: Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers allegedly swindled over Rs 2,026 crore because the liquor excise coverage lacked transparency and thrived on unlawful decision-making to profit some favoured licencees, stated a Comptroller and Auditor Common of India (CAG) report whose excerpts got here into public area on Saturday.
The doc of the federal government’s auditor that has uncovered the liquor rip-off is called, “Report of the Comptroller and Auditor Common of India on Efficiency Audit on Regulation and Provide of Liquor in Delhi.”
The damning findings of the Comptroller and Auditor Common of India, Girish Chandra Murmu, over the AAP authorities’s controversial liquor coverage come as a giant setback to the ruling AAP forward of the February 5 Meeting elections, giving contemporary ammunition to the Opposition BJP and the Congress who’ve dubbed the rip-off “Liquorgate”.
“Accountability and accountability must be mounted for the lapses noticed and the enforcement mechanism must be strengthened,” stated Murmu in his closing advice within the report for the yr ended March 31, 2022. The report was additionally signed by Principal Accountant Common (Audit), Delhi, Aman Deep Chatha.
The BJP’s Chief of Opposition (LoP) in Delhi Meeting Vijender Gupta stated, “The Aam Aadmi Occasion authorities of Delhi has at the moment confirmed to be probably the most corrupt authorities of the nation.”
“We’d like solutions on who benefitted from the lack of public cash and which AAP leaders obtained kickbacks,” he stated.
One of many key findings was the non-setting up of labs to verify the standard of liquor being provided in Delhi, a lapse that uncovered thousands and thousands of metropolis residents to well being dangers.
The federal government auditor’s report tore into the AAP authorities’s policy-making and implementation, citing a number of situations of irregularities like – lack of transparency in pricing, violation in situation and renewal of licences, non-penalisation of violators, non-seeking of approval from LG, Cupboard or the Meeting.
“Precise implementation was sub-optimal and targets behind the coverage weren’t achieved. Vends in non-conforming wards couldn’t be opened and equitable distribution of retail vends couldn’t be achieved. Subject and administration of zonal licences had main shortcomings,” stated the report.
The ruling AAP questioned the veracity of the ‘leaked’ CAG report and dismissed allegations of wrongdoing towards Kejriwal and his Cupboard ministers, together with Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain, who had been arrested and later granted bail in cash laundering and corruption instances linked to the excise coverage.
The CAG report stated the exchequer misplaced round Rs 890 crore because the AAP authorities didn’t re-tender the surrendered retail liquor licences.
The report famous, “There was lack of scrutiny of the enterprise entities on the subject of their monetary wherewithal and administration experience. Situations of associated enterprise entities holding licences throughout the liquor provide chain had been seen.”
“Liquor provide information signifies exclusivity preparations between zonal licencees and wholesalers and Model Pushing. Give up of zonal licences throughout the prolonged coverage interval additional led to substantial income loss. Different essential measures which had been deliberate within the coverage, like establishing of laboratories and batch testing for high quality assurance, establishing of tremendous premium vends and so forth., weren’t applied,” it stated.
The federal government misplaced a further Rs 941 crore because of the exemptions that needed to be given to the zonal licencees, the report stated.
The Group of Ministers, headed by Minister Manish Sisodia, allegedly didn’t act on the advice of the professional panel and even allowed disqualified entities to bid for licences.
The findings on alleged wrongdoings, as a consequence of which Kejriwal, Sisodia and lots of different authorities functionaries, confronted cash laundering and corruption instances, are positive to boost the political temperature in Delhi the place the AAP is making an attempt to return again to energy for a fourth time.
The elections for the 70 Meeting seats shall be held on February 5 and the outcomes shall be declared on February 8. Within the present Home, the AAP has 62 legislators and the BJP has 8.
