Virat Kohli's interview sparks another DDCA controversy

Virat Kohli was called as the ‘whistleblower who exposed corruption under Arun Jaitley’ by The Aam Aadmi Party. The AAP and DDCA have been created a furore over the issue of Arun Jaitley.

This statement comes a day after DDCA working president Chetan Chauhan claimed that Kohli wouldn’t have been the captain of the Indian Test team had there been corruption in the cricket body.

In an interview to The Hindu, Kohli had said, “Being ignored for the Delhi under-14 squad was shattering for me. You know well how the system works in Delhi. The option was to do someone a favour and get me into the team. That option was presented to my father and was promptly dismissed. Next year I got into the team on my credentials.”

Mr. Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party have alleged massive financial bungling and fraud in the DDCA under Mr Jaitley, who headed it for 13 years till 2013. DDCA’s acting chairman Chetan Chouhan on his part has termed the allegations baseless. “wild and baseless” allegations of corruption in the selection of players.

The party asked the finance minister as to who in the DDCA asked for favours from Kohli’s late father for his selection in the under-14 team. It also asked Jaitley why Kohli was allegedly ignored when his father refused to meet the demands of DDCA office-bearers.

“Mr. Jaitley, can you deny the specific allegations made by Indian skipper Virat Kohli?” the party asked in a press release.

AAP also released two letters that it claimed were proof that Mr Jaitley tried to pressure the Delhi police to close an investigation into a cricket club being privatized.