AAP’s fresh set of five questions to union Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley

· Agarbatti seller constructed a world-class Cricket stadium for Mr Jaitley

· DDCA scam is getting bigger and murkier with each passing day

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday posed five new questions to the union Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley about his involvement in the multi-crore DDCA scam.
The questions were asked by AAP leaders Ashutosh and Sanjay Singh at a press conference, in which the two leaders said that Mr Jaitley cannot deter the AAP by fielding proxies or sending legal notices through them.
“He will have to come clean on the issue of rampant corruption under him in the DDCA. Instead of responding to specific issues of corruption raised by the Aam Aadmi Party, Mr Jaitley is making his men send legal notices to us. We are not scared and will respond to the legal notice but there are five more questions for Mr. Jaitley that he needs to answer instead of resorting to diversionary tactics,” said Ashutosh.
The fresh set of five questions are :
1. Mr. Jaitley, since when have you known Mr. Lokesh Sharma, Managing Director of 21st Century Media Private Limited, who is alleged to have benefited from the DDCA scam?

2. Mr. Jaitley, please clarify whether Mr. Lokesh Sharma is your family friend or a business associate ?

3. Mr. Jaitley, did you or any of your family members/relations ever held any position in 21stCentury Media Private Limited or any company related to Mr. Lokesh Sharma? If yes, please give out details.

4. Mr. Jaitley did you or any of your family members/relations every had any business relationship with Mr. Lokesh Sharma/21st Century Media Private Limited or any of the companies related to Lokesh Sharma?

5. Mr. jaitley, in 2006, you declared assets of only 23.86 crore rupees and in 2012 you declared assets of Rs 120 crores. What is the basis of six fold increase in your assets in such short period? Which business model did you follow?

Ashutosh and Sanjay Singh also highlighted glaring irregularities in the DDCA under Mr Jaitley.
Ashutosh said, “as the Aam Aadmi Party is digging deeper into the DDCA scam under Finance Minister Arun Jaitely, more and more stinking facts are coming out. The modus operandi is criminal in intent. The new revelations, that we are putting forth today, shock us and leave a question, which Mr. Jaitley has no option that to answer.
Take a look at these facts :
DDCA records show that three companies, namely –
1. Stream Marketing Private Limited
2. Ultimate IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
3. Advent Trading Private Limited
were paid lakhs of ruppes for carrying out various works at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground by the DDCA. Records of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, a ministry under Mr. Arun Jaitley, show that these three companies have a common address in Delhi. And that is –
U-23, Arvind Nagar, Delhi
This address is found in Ghonda area of East Delhi, and the verification reveals that three small shops are being run from the ground floor of this address; a dairy, a garment shop and a dispensary.
We want to highlight that this scam started in 2006, when Mr. Arun Jaitley was at the helm of affairs of the DDCA and went on till 2010, and Mr. Arun Jaitley was still heading the DDCA.
Records show that one Naresh Chand Sharma is director of Stream Marketing Private Limited and the firm was paid lakhs of rupees for renovating Feroz Shah Kotla Ground. Same Naresh Chand Sharma owns the house at the address mentioned above –
U-23, Arvind Nagar, Delhi
and stays on the first floor of the same house, and when a prominent English daily contacted him, Naresh Chand Sharma told the reporter that he knows nothing about these companies and the payments made by the DDCA. He claimed he never carried out any work at Feroz Shah Kotla and rather has never been to the stadium.
Mr. Jaitley has been consistently justifying spending 114 crore rupees for a contract which was tendered at one fifth of this cost, i.e. just 24 crore rupees, saying that he is proud of making a world class stadium. We today expose that the expertise Mr. Jaitley hired to make his world class stadium at five times the original estimate, the expertise of likes of Naresh Chand Sharma who was paid lakhs of rupees through various companies, in which he has been shown as director.
Mr. Naresh Chand Sharma, in fact, is an expert of selling Agarbattis. Yes, he leaves his home early in the morning and door to door sells Agarbattis. DDCA records show that this 64 year old agarbatti seller supplied carpets, panel and arena seating for Mr. Jaitley’s world class Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium through another company called Nipun Tradeex Private Limited, in which he has been shown director.
Mr. Jaitley, we appeal to you today that please shed your mask, resign as Finance Minister, confess to your misdeeds, apologise to the nation and surrender to the law of the land. And please, for God’s sake, spare poor people like Naresh Chand Sharma, who were used as fronts for floating shell companies to siphon off DDCA money. Please answer who pocketed the money that was paid to Naresh Chand Sharma and others like him. Mr. Jaitley, you still have the opportunity to expose professional criminals, who in connivance with you carried out this fraud with professional precision.