CAG found no graft in expenditure on advertisement: Sisodia

New Delhi, Aug 26 (PTI) Amid allegation of huge surge inexpenditure on advertisement by the AAP government, DeputyChief Minister Manish Sisodia today claimed there is nocorruption in it and demanded that CAG conduct a comparativestudy of publicity expense by Delhi and other states. "There has been no corruption in advertisements given byDelhi government’s publicity department. The CAG report hasnot found even a single rupee scam in expenditure on ads bythe government," he claimed during a Calling Attention motionin the Assembly. "CAG may conduct a comparative analysis of spendings onadvertisement by Delhi government and that of other stategovernments which will clear the air on the issue," he said. "Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah and other leaderswho have been alleging a corruption of Rs 526 crore in Delhigovernment’s advertisements should apologise as CAG report hasnot pointed to even a single scam in it," the Deputy ChiefMinister said. Earlier, Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel cancelled abreach of privilege motion against Sisodia moved by Leader ofOpposition Vijender Gupta alleging he did not give the rightanswer in the Assembly on CAG report on Wednesday. Sisodia asked the Chair to take action against the BJPleader for "leaking" the CAG report to the media before it wasobtained by the government. "By leaking the report to the media through a pressrelease, Gupta has committed contempt of House and action mustbe taken against him and the matter should be referred to thePrivileges Committee," he said. The matter was referred to the Privileges Committee ofthe House by the Speaker. Sisodia on August 24 had informed the House that theDelhi government has not received any CAG report. "Gupta should tell where he found the report," Sisodiasaid, adding he received the report at 5.30 PM on Wednesday. He also said the report was with CAG, Lt Governor ofDelhi and Finance Secretary of Delhi government and hebelieved that it was not leaked by the government official. When asked about the issue at an event, Lt GovernorNajeeb Jung said, "It would not be really fair for me tocomment. The process is very clear. It will be tabled in theAssembly where the MLAs will debate on it and theshortcomings. Reports have been published in the newspapers.Let’s see what the outcome is." The Deputy Chief Minister also challenged Gupta to beready for a discussion and not "run away" when the report ispresented in the House with the permission of the Speaker. Gupta had moved the breach of privileges motion alleging,"Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has committed contemptof the House by making wrong statement and in view of this theAssembly Speaker should punish him." PTI BUN VIT SBR NSD ZMNNSD