CAG audit into Kejriwal residence redo

ACTING on the Centre’s recommendation, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) will initiate a probe into the expenses incurred in the renovation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence, sources said on Monday.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA

The move has come after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recommended CAG to conduct a “special audit” after taking note of a letter from L-G VK Saxena where he alleged irregularities and violations in the reconstruction of the CM’s residence complex.

Reacting sharply, the AAP called the decision “a brazen misuse of Central agencies by the BJP, which was disappointed at the emerging prospect of losing next year’s Lok Sabha elections”.