Defiant Kirti Azad hits backs at Arun Jaitley

New Delhi: A day after the BJP issued a show-cause notice to its suspended MP, Mr Kirti Azad, asking him why he should not be expelled, the Darbhanga MP on Friday attacked Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, saying he cannot use the shield of party discipline as the Delhi cricket body issue has no link to the BJP.

Asserting that corruption in the DDCA has nothing to do with the BJP, and that he had not named anyone, Mr Azad, in his reply to the BJP, has urged the party leadership to “terminate the proposed disciplinary proceedings against me so that I may resume workas a proud member and MP of BJP”.

He said he had been raising the issue for the past nine years and the BJP had never asked him not to pursue it.