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Arun Jaitley will come through with flying colours : PM Modi on DDCA controversy

by IBNS 21 Dec 2015, 07:22 pm

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IBNS) Throwing his weight behind Arun Jaitley, who is embroiled in DDCA corruption controversy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his Finance Minister will "come through flying colours."

"Arun Jaitley will come through with flying colours in the same manner as L K Advani did in Hawala case," the Prime Minister said at a weekly meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party.

This is Modi's first response to the controversy that has come as a big threat to the BJP.

 Jaitley has been accused by  the Aam Aadmi Party, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, of shielding those guilty in the alleged corruption  in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) which he headed for 13 years.

What compounded the crisis for Jaitley and his party was the attack by  BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad on the issue.  Azad, in a press conferenceon Sunday,  stopped just short of naming the Finance Minister  in his allegations of corruption in the DDCA and  also challenged Jaitley publicly to sue him too.

On Monday night, BJP chief Amit Shah had also defended Jaitley. "Arun Jaitley has lived his public life with certain principles and the nation knows that the entire BJP stands behind him," Shah had said. 

 Shah had met Kirti Azad twice on Friday and conveyed that going public with more charges against Mr Jaitley would hurt the party.