more-in Continuing his tirade against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Friday alleged the former had opposed demonetisation as he was connected to hawala operatives. Referring to his earlier allegation of Mr. Kejriwal having received ?2 crore in donations and east Delhi businessman Mukesh Kumar’s press meet on Thursday, where he said he had donated the amount through four of “his companies registered in Delhi”, Mr. Mishra said Mr. Kejriwal was using Mr. Kumar as a dummy who is making false claims of having made contributions to the party. Video uploaded “I donated the money to the AAP because I thought the AAP had come into politics to serve the poor. I have never met Mr. Kejriwal,” Mr. Kumar said in a video that was uploaded on Twitter and re-tweeted by Mr. Kejriwal. “This is all an elaborate ploy to launder money and convert black money into white,” Mr. Mishra said, adding that everything happened with the full knowledge of Mr. Kejriwal. On May 14, Mr. Mishra had alleged that ?2 crore through four cheques of over ?50 lakh each was transferred to AAP through four shell companies. Showing four letters that he claimed were letters of donations of ?50 lakh each, he said Mr. Kumar had only signed two of them. “This shows that Mr. Kumar only donated ?1 crore. Where did the other ?1 crore come from,” Mishra asked. He also alleged that the entire ? 2 crore donation was made a day before the municipal elections last month, which also raised doubts about its genuineness. “When the Income Tax Department asked Mr. Kejriwal where the ?2 crore had come from, he said he didn’t know. I challenge him to say that it came from Mr. Kumar,” said Mr. Mishra. ‘Donations concealed’ On May 14, Mr. Mishra had alleged that AAP leaders close to Mr. Kejriwal concealed donations from the public, lied to the Election Commission (EC) and laundered money using 16 shell companies. The AAP has termed these claims as “baseless”, with senior leader Sanjay Singh saying that the BJP and Mr. Mishra were working on the principal that “if you tell a lie a thousand times, it becomes the truth”. He said the AAP had followed all rules while accepting donations through proper channels. “All donations have been accepted via bank transactions and not in cash. We have no black money. All of it is declared,” Mr. Singh said, adding that if there were so many cases against the AAP, why would the BJP spare them till now? ‘Somnath Bharti’s dog’ “These are the people who didn’t even spare [former Delhi Minister] Somnath Bharti’s dog. They have been picking up irrelevant issues to target us,” Mr. Singh added.

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