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BJP MLAs to continue overnight protest at Delhi Assembly

BJP MLAs will continue their overnight protest at the Delhi Assembly for the second consecutive day to Tuesday to demand the sacking of AAP ministers over alleged corruption charges.

The BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the House for the third day amid multiple adjournments and sloganeering by the leaders of both the ruling AAP and BJP.

CBI searches Manish Sisodia's bank locker in excise policy scam case

The CBI investigators on Tuesday searched the locker belonging to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in nearby Ghaziabad, bordering the capital, as part of its investigations into the Delhi excise policy case.

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Dy CM Sisodia informally given clean chit by CBI but will be arrested in a week or 10 days under political pressure, claims Delhi CM Kejriwal

ED is being misused for political purposes not only in Bengal but in Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar & Jharkhand. I'm sure people of the country will see through this and join us in our demand for making ED an independent & neutral organization: Saugata Roy, TMC MP

Sisodia's honesty stands vindicated in front of entire nation: Kejriwal after CBI search

The honesty and patriotism ofManishSisodiastand vindicated in front of the entire nation, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asserted Tuesday after his deputy said the CBI found nothing upon searching his bank locker.

Kejriwal alleged that the action was triggered by "dirty politics".

'Sharab', 'shiksha' scams of AAP govt twin towers of corruption in Delhi: BJP

In a fresh attack on the Delhi government, the BJP on Tuesday alleged that 'sharab' (liquor policy) and 'shiksha' (education) "scams" had become the "twin towers of corruption" in the city and the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation was gradually building more floors.

The BJP leaders also alleged that the Delhi government escalated the cost of building classrooms by multiple times and projected several school toilets as classrooms to justify the "bloated" bills.

Manish Sisodia terms BJP 'bacha chor' party, says can't answer lies thrown by Oppn

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday dubbed the BJP a "bacha chor" party in the Delhi Assembly while referring to the arrest of a BJP corporator in an alleged child kidnapping case.

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'You're intoxicated with power': Anna Hazare slams Arvind Kejriwal over excise policy

Veteran social reformer and anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Tuesday wrote a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reminding him of his own lines from his book Swaraj while criticising Delhi's liquor policy and accusing him of getting intoxicated with the power.

Nothing was found in my bank locker today just like nothing was found at my residence during the CBI raid: Sisodia

Sale of liquor went up, but there was burglary into the Govt coffer: Shehzad Poonawalla

Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives at Delhi Police Headquarters, holds meeting with police officials

Ruckus in Delhi Assembly ahead of confidence vote

'Reverse Robinhood' model in Delhi govt, money meant for poor taken away to fill coffers of liquor mafia: BJP's Shahzad Poonawalla

People asked for 'pathshala' (schools), but AAP govt gave 'madhushala' (liquor shops): BJP's Shahzad Poonawalla

Twin towers of corruption -- 'Sharab and 'Shiksha ghotala' -- have come up in Delhi: BJP leader Shahzad Poonawalla

Corruption in construction of Delhi govt schools, cost escalated multiple times: BJP MP Manoj Tiwari

CBI searches Sisodia's bank locker in alleged liquor scam

Delhi assembly session adjourned till 12 pm

Delhi 'liquor scam': Nadda asks Kejriwal to prove innocence in court

BJP president JP Nadda has said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should answer the questions on the alleged liquor scam and go to court if no wrongdoing was committed.

Addressing a press conference in Agartala, Nadda claimed that Kejriwal was trying to divert the people's attention from the alleged scam.

"Whenever he is asked about the liquor scam and excise policy, he evades the questions. Sometimes Kejriwal claims that the Central government is trying to send his leaders to jail and sometimes he says AAP leaders are being harassed and sometimes he says something else," Nadda said on Monday.

Overnight protests continue at Delhi Assembly as AAP, BJP accuse each other of corruption

CBI will check my bank locker but not find anything: Sisodia

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has claimed that CBI officials will come to check his bank locker on Tuesday and said the agency sleuths will not find anything in it.

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