Sandeep Dikshit hits out at Ajay Maken 

New Delhi: Former Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit has mounted a stinging attack on DPCC Chief Ajay Maken accusing him of having tried to falsely implicate his mother and then Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the CWG scam and create an atmosphere to discredit her ahead of assembly polls in 2013.

Bringing the strife in Congress’ Delhi unit to the fore, Dikshit, without naming Maken, said in a blog he cannot accept a leadership whose sole objective was to discredit the Congress government in Delhi under Sheila Dikshit, which ultimately led to destroying the party itself.

When contacted, Maken refused to comment.

Dikshit said he wrote the blog to clarify his position after a journalist speculated about his leaving the party for greener pastures.

Asserting that he was a dedicated Congressman, Dikshit said the political vehicle of the Congress is the pivot around which a large coalition can take shape. Dikshit, who could not retain his East Delhi Lok Sabha seat in the parlaimentary elections in 2014, said an atmosphere was deliberately created to discredit his mother.

“Even as late as three-four weeks back, the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) leader was cajoling journalists to hype up the water tanker issue. He said the Congress was staging a comeback on the strength of the 15 years of its rule in Delhi, which was discredited by the very person who is reaping that benefit now.”

“This leadership has prospered by being her counterpoint, and has made abusing her its rallying point”, he said, adding “for the current Delhi leadership, she remained a source of grave concern and fear.”

In the blog, Dikshit also attacked the BJP-led government at the Centre and the AAP dispensation in the city.

PTI