<p>In the eye of a storm, controversial Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti today accused the media of taking money from Narendra Modi and slammed the Delhi Commission for Women.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bharti, who had chosen to attend a kite flying festival instead of appearing before the Delhi Commission of Women yesterday after he was summoned for the midnight raid episode, charged that the Women's Commission is "political".<br /><br />Attacking DCW chief Barkha Singh, he said, "Barkha Singh is a Congress member...She should have resigned herself after her government's term ended".<br /><br />Terming all the reports against him as false, the law minister threatened, "They are trying to defame me, I am going to take them to the court."<br /><br />However, it was not clear who he was referring to.<br /><br />As reporters continued to question him over the controversy surrounding him, he accused them of taking money from the Gujarat Chief Minister.<br /><br />"How much money have you received from Modi?" he shot back.<br /><br />DCW had yesterday summoned Bharti following allegations that the Delhi minister led a group of AAP workers who misbehaved with a number of African women on the pretext of a raid on an alleged drug and prostitution ring in South Delhi last week.<br /><br />The Law Minister was asked to depose before the commission to explain the charges against him but he sent his lawyers, who said he was absent due to "some urgencies".<br /><br />Bharti's lawyers and the Commission Chief Singh, a former Congress MLA, had a public confrontation at the DCW office after she refused to allow them to present the minister's response.<br /><br />The Aam Aadmi Party had yesterday said in a statement that it "strongly disapproved of the politicisation of the office of Delhi Commission for Women by its chairperson". </p>
<p>In the eye of a storm, controversial Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti today accused the media of taking money from Narendra Modi and slammed the Delhi Commission for Women.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bharti, who had chosen to attend a kite flying festival instead of appearing before the Delhi Commission of Women yesterday after he was summoned for the midnight raid episode, charged that the Women's Commission is "political".<br /><br />Attacking DCW chief Barkha Singh, he said, "Barkha Singh is a Congress member...She should have resigned herself after her government's term ended".<br /><br />Terming all the reports against him as false, the law minister threatened, "They are trying to defame me, I am going to take them to the court."<br /><br />However, it was not clear who he was referring to.<br /><br />As reporters continued to question him over the controversy surrounding him, he accused them of taking money from the Gujarat Chief Minister.<br /><br />"How much money have you received from Modi?" he shot back.<br /><br />DCW had yesterday summoned Bharti following allegations that the Delhi minister led a group of AAP workers who misbehaved with a number of African women on the pretext of a raid on an alleged drug and prostitution ring in South Delhi last week.<br /><br />The Law Minister was asked to depose before the commission to explain the charges against him but he sent his lawyers, who said he was absent due to "some urgencies".<br /><br />Bharti's lawyers and the Commission Chief Singh, a former Congress MLA, had a public confrontation at the DCW office after she refused to allow them to present the minister's response.<br /><br />The Aam Aadmi Party had yesterday said in a statement that it "strongly disapproved of the politicisation of the office of Delhi Commission for Women by its chairperson". </p>