Before @NewIndianXpress broke the first story in any media that all is not well with the #DelhiExcisePolicy, there were a few things to take care of. Though @Shahid_Faridi_ had worked on the story for over three weeks, a response from #AAP was critical... bit.ly/3ChIy3G
We'd mailed questions to the office of @msisodia, and waited three weeks, not wishing to run the story without a response. After we held on thru a series of dilatory moves and attempts to scuttle the story, the Deputy CM called us for a meeting. I personally met Sisodia...
If you can justify the excise policy, do put it on record, I said. But he skirted all specific questions, indeed seemed to take umbrage at the fact that they could be asked at all. "Could you ask such questions to Mr Modi?" is all Sisodia said.
Then we ran @Shahid_Faridi_'s story in both @TheMornStandard and @NewIndianXpress, the first on any media platform about how the #Delhi govt's new liquor policy had favoured certain players.

bit.ly/3QZguXb
The first vindication of the story, surprisingly, came from the Delhi government itself when CM @ArvindKejriwal scrapped the excise policy in July.

newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/ju…
Today, the story has taken on another dimension with the CBI raiding the residential premises of #ManishSisodia and other sites, and thereafter #ArvindKejriwal backing his deputy with eloquent words. The political storm is just beginning...

newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/au…

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