DDCA row: BJP knocks the bails off Kirti Azad's wicket, suspends MP for taking on Jaitley

Finally patience evaporated for BJP president Amit Shah who on Tuesday suspended party MP from Bihar Kirti Azad from the BJP for going against the party line and attacking Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Lok Sabha over the DDCA corruption row. Azad had spoken out against Jaitley after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had alleged that the finance minister was involved in graft during his tenure as the head of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA). The former cricketer on Sunday alleged that the DDCA had given contracts to fake companies, paying them crores of rupees in cash and had fudged auditing. [caption id=“attachment_2554568” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  BJP parliamentarian Kirti Azad. PTI[/caption] Addressing media persons, Azad showed a video produced by WikiLeaks4India which claimed that the DDCA had given out contracts to various companies but the addresses given for these were found to be false. It also alleged that the DDCA hired office and other equipment at vastly inflated prices, including hiring of laptops at Rs 16,000 per day and printers at Rs 3,000 per day. “I just want to expose corruption, the accounts of it will be explained later. I repeat, this is not personal or against one person. It is against corruption,” he said. Azad, a member of the Indian team that won the World Cup in 1983, also refuted former DDCA president Jaitley’s allegation that he had met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in order to sketch out a plan to target him. “If someone is raising these allegations, he must know that three fingers will point back at him,” he said. Jaitley headed the DDCA for 13 years till 2013. Kejriwal has demanded that he must resign or be removed from his post as Union finance minister in order to enable an independent probe into DDCA matters. Speculation is now rife about whether the BJP will take action against Shatrughan Sinha who called Azad “a hero”. With inputs from PTI and IANS