AAP Claims Its Scam-Tainted Goa CM Candidate Faces Arrest      

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), who had announced that Elvis Gomes, accused of orchestrating the Housing Board scam as its CM candidate, has now claimed that he may face arrest at the behest of the ruling BJP government on trumped up charges. An FIR had been lodged against Gomes last month and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had summoned him. The claims were made by AAP leader Ashutosh.

The accusations came a day after the former Principal Secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought voluntary retirement, accusing the Central Bureau of Investigation of trying to frame Kejriwal.

Ashutosh said Elvis had been told by his former colleagues in the bureaucracy that his arrest was imminent and that all decisions taken by him as a bureaucrat and as President of the Goa Football Association were being examined by BJP leaders. Gomes has been booked in connection with a land acquisition case along with a former minister in the Congress-led coalition government, Nilkanth Halarnkar. He claims that he is being framed by the Goa government and that he was not even in office when the alleged scam occurred.