Delhi assembly elections 2015: Kejriwal dares govt to arrest him; PM Modi says there is limit to shamelessness

NEW DELHI: Striking a defiant note against BJP's mounting attack on AAP on the donation issue, Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday dared the government to "arrest" him over the allegations and said his party was ready to face investigation by any central agency including CBI. "The government is in your hands. All the police and investigating agencies are with you. The CBI, Enforcement Directorate, IB and I-T department are with you. If you have the courage why don't you arrest me," he said. Accusing BJP of trying to defame him ahead of the elections, he said the government "does not have the guts" to take action against him as the allegations against him were false. Addressing an election rally in east Delhi's Trilokpuri constituency, Kejriwal hit back at Jaitley for his comments that "AAP was caught red-handed" in receiving "dubious" funds. READ ALSO: Times Now ‘Poll of Polls’ show AAP ahead of BJP A breakaway group of AAP — AVAM — on Monday had accused the party of receiving four cheques of Rs 50 lakh each on April 15 last year from dubious companies triggering a major controversy. Jaitley called the Rs 2 crore donation through cheques of Rs 50 lakh each by four companies to AAP a clear case of "round-tripping of black money". The AAP leader said has been facing a "vicious attack" from the BJP leaders for past few months and the attack has increased as the ruling party at the Centre has realised that it was facing a defeat in the February 7 polls. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi called me a Naxalite? He says I should be sent to the jungle. Am I a Naxalite? BJP's Nupur Sharma called me a monkey? Nirmala Sitharaman called me a thief, Kiran Bedi called me toxic. They don't have the courage ... I have done no wrong. Even my worst enemies say that Kejriwal is honest," he said. The AAP on Tuesday wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India demanding a Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe. It also offered to face derecognition and accept any punishment if the SIT probe found anything incriminating against it. "We have already forewarned about this mud-slinging. It happened during Lok Sabha polls too. BJP has lost ground, and therefore it is throwing mud at us," he said. READ ALSO: Court to record evidence in plea against KejriwalThe former Delhi chief minister also challenged BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi to come on a show and "look at me in the eye and then tell me that I was dishonest." Attacking BJP, he said there are people in the party, who want to "keep women without jobs and education". "One of their leaders say, women should bear four children, others say don't wear jeans, don't buy cell phone," he said. There is limit to shamelessness, Modi tells AAPPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday mounted a shrill attack on AAP over allegations of the party receiving "dubious" donations, saying it has exposed its claim of being more honest than others and questioned whether AAP can run Delhi with "dishonesty and lies". In an election rally, Modi also had a swipe at Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, calling them "maa-beta" (mother-son), and said nobody was listening to them except when they make statements against him. "While big and old Congress has ruined the city during its 15 years of regime, the temporary party (AAP), which is new and small, destroyed it for one year," the Prime Minister said, adding it was BJP's responsibility to repair the damage. READ ALSO: Highlights of Modi's Rohini speech"Can Delhi be run through dishonesty and lies. Cleverness does not take you very far. We have given test of fire to be where we are," the Prime Minister said, adding that his party would make the national capital "standout" on the world scene if voted to power. The Arvind Kejriwal's organization levelled all sorts of allegations of corruption against BJP and Congress but now truth has come out. "Hathi ke dant dekhane ke aur khane ke aur (what you see is not necessarily true). There is a limit to shamelessness," he said."People have talked about black money but this is the first time we have heard about wrong deeds in the middle of the night ... You have betrayed people's trust," Modi said, in a reference to the allegation by a AAP breakaway group. Taking a dig at AAP, he further said it was strange that very party which used to keep details of Swiss banks accounts of others, strangely had no idea about its own donors.