Atishi claims, CAG report confirms our point, removing old policy!
On the second day of the special session of the delhi Assembly, chief minister Rekha Gupta presented the CAG report related to the liquor policy. Now the statement of leader of Opposition and aam aadmi party MLA Atishi has come out on this. She said that the excise audit report was presented in the delhi Assembly on tuesday (25 February). Its 7 chapters are on the excise policy from 2017-21 and one chapter is on the new excise policy.
AAP leader Atishi said, "The delhi government had put forward the flaws and corruption of the old excise policy to the people of Delhi. Under that policy, liquor was brought illegally from haryana and UP. This report has confirmed our point. There was corruption in how much liquor is being sold." 'Everyone knows who had the liquor contracts'
Former chief minister Atishi said, "This report shows that more than 28 percent corruption was being done by contractors and the money was going into the pockets of brokers. This report shows that black marketing of liquor was happening and everyone knows which party's people had the liquor contracts. Liquor contractors made profits by calculating the cost price incorrectly. This report is repeating the same thing that we said that the people of delhi are incurring losses due to the old policy."
Atishi further said, "This policy makes it clear that the AAP government took the right decision by removing the old policy. In the eighth chapter, this report says that there was transparency in the new policy, there were ways to stop black marketing and income should have increased through this."
'Excise revenue increased in Punjab'
He further said, "When the same policy was implemented in Punjab, the excise revenue increased there. From 2021 to 2025, this policy has increased the revenue by 65 percent. The report says that if the new policy was implemented properly, the revenue would have increased from 4108 crores to 8911 crores in just one year." Atishi also said, "This new policy was not implemented, so two thousand crores less revenue was collected. It should be investigated who did not allow it to be implemented. Three people are responsible for this; delhi LG, cbi and ED. Our demand is that on the basis of this CAG report, Delhi's Lieutenant Governor, cbi and ED should be investigated, FIR should be filed and action should be taken. We have another demand, investigation of the 20 thousand crore case.
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