They could not get a meeting with the Lieutenant-Governor. So they took the bicycle allegation to the Anti-Corruption Branch.

They could not get a meeting with the Lieutenant-Governor. So they took the bicycle allegation to the Anti-Corruption Branch.

On Friday, 21 August 2026, the Aam Aadmi Party alleged that Lieutenant-Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu had not granted its leaders time for a meeting despite multiple requests regarding alleged irregularities in procurement of medicines, bicycles and rice. Later the same day, Aam Aadmi Party Member of the Legislative Assembly Sanjeev Jha filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch seeking an inquiry into the alleged bicycle procurement scam. A complaint is not a first-information report number on this card. An allegation is not a finding. This desk will keep both labelled that way.

Aam Aadmi Party Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj accused the Lieutenant-Governor of selectively meeting those who please him and of not acknowledging the party’s requests. His words, as locked here: you cannot avoid meeting opposition leaders as a personal choice; granting an appointment to opposition leaders is your professional obligation. That is a party president’s charge about access. It is not a court order compelling a meeting.

There was no official reaction from the Lieutenant-Governor’s office on this filing. A source said the Lieutenant-Governor had met Leader of Opposition Atishi at least twice since assuming office in March. Two meetings with the Leader of Opposition are a source-flagged fact on this card. They are not a schedule of every opposition appointment granted or refused. This desk will not invent a diary of declined dates.

On 16 August Jha wrote to the Lieutenant-Governor seeking a thorough investigation into alleged scams in procurement of bicycles, medicines and rice by the Bharatiya Janata Party government. Medicines and rice sit on that letter. Friday’s Anti-Corruption Branch paper, as reported, is the bicycle complaint. This desk will not pretend the agency has already opened or closed a medicines or rice file on these facts.

Quoting Jha on the public platform X, the Anti-Corruption Branch complaint alleged a ₹37 crore scam in the procurement of bicycles worth ₹90 crore. Jha said the party had submitted all the facts and information related to this scam to the Anti-Corruption Branch and hoped the agency would conduct an honest investigation, get to the bottom of the matter and ensure that no one responsible is spared. ₹90 crore is the alleged procurement value. ₹37 crore is the alleged scam amount. Both are Aam Aadmi Party figures on a complaint. Neither is an Anti-Corruption Branch finding. This desk has no first-information report number and no agency conclusion on this tip and will invent neither.

New Delhi holds the Lieutenant-Governor’s office and the Anti-Corruption Branch. This desk will not invent a tender number, a supplier name, a school-distribution list, or a government rebuttal that is not on the card. It will not put party-leader faces on this page.

Until the Anti-Corruption Branch writes, the public ledger is a 16 August letter on bicycles, medicines and rice, a Friday allegation that the Lieutenant-Governor had ignored meeting requests, a Bharadwaj quotation on professional obligation, a source note that Atishi was met at least twice since March, an Anti-Corruption Branch complaint by Sanjeev Jha alleging a ₹37 crore scam on a ₹90 crore bicycle procurement, and no official Lieutenant-Governor reaction on this filing. Opposition has taken a municipal bicycle-procurement allegation to the agency. The agency’s finding is not yet written.