BJP's Manjinder Sirsa accuses Manish Sisodia among others of favouring liquor wholesalers in Delhi

Chandigarh, June 8: BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate accusing Delhi Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Delhi Minister of Transport and Environment Kailash Gehlot, Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain, MP Raghav Chadha and several others  of extending wrongful gains and favours to liquor wholesalers in Delhi. He alleged that wrongful gains were extended to Indospirit Distribution Ltd (Indo Spirit) and Brindco Sales Pvt Ltd (Brindco Spirits) by structuring and laying a mechanism through the Delhi Excise Policy for 2021-2022 in connivance with personnel in-charge of Excise Department, Govt of Delhi, and 'group of ministers' headed by Manish Sisodia. He alleged that wholesale businesses owned by Sameer Mahendru and Aman Dhal procured a customised excise policy with certain pre-requisites and criteria to create the monopoly of a particular group in order to wipe out entire competitors with the sole purpose to earn unaccounted monies at the cost of the exchequer. Also Read | Watch Antim Ardas LIVE: It's as if a part of Sidhu Moosewala's kin, friends and fans has gone with him Manjinder Sirsa alleged that the Excise Policy divided Delhi into 32 zones, having nine-10 wards in each zone, for the purposes of issuance of liquor licence. "The minimum reserved price for one zone licence is around Rs 200 crore and the existing retail vendors are completely out of competition. One of the conditions is that an entity can have a licence for two zones, which means effectively entire Delhi shall come in the hands of certain giant entities. Thus, inherent object of the new policy is to merely aid cartelisation instead of effective competition (Which earlier was run by DTTDC, DSIIDC, Food Supply Corporation and others which were all Government corporations)," reads the complaint by the BJP leader. He further alleged that in return of the unjust favour granted to the accused wholesalers, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was reported to have been receiving an unaccounted amount Rs 30 crores in cash each month as bribe. "The policy has been drafted and notified with the sole intent to facilitate the creation of monopoly in the liquor market in the hands of Indo Spirit and Brindco Spirits, which is not just against the canons of equity, but is in a complete violation of principles of competition and fair trade," alleged Sirsa in the complaint letters to the CBI and the ED. Also Read | Will try to keep Sidhu Moosewala alive till my last breathe, says his father Manjinder Sirsa further alleged that a conspiracy was also being hatched in order to implement a similar policy in the state of Punjab with the sole motive to reap unjust and wrongful monetary gains, for which a meeting was held on May 30 at the residence of Manish Sisodia. Among others it was attended by Varun Runjan (Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Punjab), Kap Sinha (Financial Commissioner Taxation, Punjab), Naresh Dubey, Vijay Nair, Raghav Chadha, Harpal Cheema (Excise Minister, Punjab) and certain other officials. Sirsa alleged it was a matter of concern that officials of Punjab were not running the government independently, but at the instance of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia. He has sought an immediate enquiry and investigation into "kickbacks offered to government officials concerned, who customised and enacted the policy to reap wrongful gains". [caption id="attachment_650035" align="aligncenter"] BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa[/caption] -PTC News