New Delhi: Transparency International (TI), the Global corruption watchdog, has rejected the claim of Aam Aadmi Party that corruption had come down in Delhi based on “unpublished report” of TI.
Former Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP’s convener Arvind Kejriwal had claimed in CII meeting on Monday that he had come to know that Transparency International is set to release a report which says that corruption is down in the Delhi Jal Board.
Kejriwal said, “For 65 years, corruption was not controlled, we have brought it down even if only by 20-30 percent and they say we don’t known how to govern?”
The first reference to a TI report was made by senior AAP leader Shazia Ilmi. She was quoted in a newspaper report, saying that Transparency International in a report, which has not yet been released, found that corruption is down in Delhi in the past 45 days.
Shazia Ilmi had said, “Transparency International, in a report which hasn’t been released in India yet, says that in the past 45 days corruption has come down in Delhi. This is by itself an achievement of AAP.”
However, Transparency International India has staunchly denied authoring any such report on Delhi, thereby exposing the tall claims made by AAP over its track record during the 49 days it was in power.
The executive director of Transparency International India Ashutosh Kumar Mishra had denied the existence of any such report in a press release.
The release stated, “The information shared by Ms Shazia Ilmi is factually incorrect. We have not undertaken any study on corruption in Delhi and so there is no question of any such published or unpublished report.”
Bureau Report
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