BJP ups ante against AAP over liquor policy scam with new 'sting' video

In the sting, Amit Arora, one of the accused, is heard telling someone how money was taken from different companies in advance

The Bharatiya Janata Party released a second sting video against the Aam Aadmi Party’s now-withdrawn excise policy, claiming that liquor business owners paid over Rs 100 crore in cash to AAP.

In a press conference at the BJP headquarters, the BJP Delhi unit chief Adesh Gupta said the money that the AAP earned during the liquor policy was used by the AAP to fund its elections in Goa or Punjab.

In the sting, Amit Arora, one of the accused in the Enforcement Directorate’s case on the liquor scam, is heard telling someone how money was taken from different companies in advance.

“He talks about the exchange of money, he reveals how the policy was formulated in a way that a select few benefit, and the flow of cash remains in their hand. He is also saying how money was taken and distributed among others,” party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said.

The BJP also said that the two big liquor brands in India and their wholesalers gave Rs 60 crore and Rs 100 crore respectively to the AAP, and the money was used by AAP to fund the Goa and Punjab elections.

Reacting to the allegations, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia challenged the BJP to come and arrest him. “BJP should give this so-called sting to the CBI, and if, in the next four days — till Monday — they find something, the CBI should come and arrest me. If not, we will know this is another attempt by the BJP to malign the AAP,” Sisodia said.