“My stand has nothing to do with his apology and I still maintain that fraud worth more than 400 crores took place during Jaitley’s term as the DDCA head,” he said.

“In fact, this whole defamation suit action was taken by Jaitley to delay the court proceedings in DDCA matter,” claimed Azad, adding, “I’ve been speaking against him forever, so much that the party has suspended me.” If Jaitley is a clean man as he claims, then why did he not file a defamation case against me,” he asked.

“It’s unfortunate that CBI has not filed an FIR in three years and before an FIR is lodged, the CBI cannot question Jaitley. When they have various reports claiming Jaitley’s role, including the one by a former High Court judge, what is restraining the Central Bureau of Investigation from filing the FIR?”

In December 2015, Arun Jaitley filed the first of the two civil defamation cases against Kejriwal and AAP leaders Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpayee, claiming that they made "false and defamatory" statements in the case involving DDCA, thereby harming his reputation.

“BJP almost begging me for an apology. Sorry. I won't oblige them. Let Jaitley ji be cross-examined in defamation cases. Let truth prevail,” Kejriwal had tweeted on 28 Dec 2015.