Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sudhanshu Mittal, who allegedly bagged contracts in the Commonwealth Games organising committee's overlays worth Rs 230 crore, will appear before Income Tax authorities on Friday.
Denying that his company got contracts worth Rs 230 crore, Mittal told rediff.com over phone: "I have to meet IT people on Friday. It is wrong to say that I got contracts of Rs 230 crore. I only got contracts worth Rs 29 lakh."
Mittal, a director in Deepali Designs, and his consortium supplied logistics and support for events in the CWG.
The BJP, meanwhile, continues to distance itself from Mittal.
A top party official, on conditions of anonymity, claimed: "For Sudhanshu, a Rs 29 lakh contract is like putting a lollypop before the elephant. Isse uska kya hoga jo rojana crore main khelta hai (This is no big deal for him; He plays in crores daily)."
A couple of days back, income tax sleuths had raided his office and residence in Delhi and also conducted raids in Chandigarh and Ludhiana to allegedly unearth information on the kickbacks that he paid to CWG organising committee officials for bagging contracts.
Tax authorities also questioned his wife about the wealth that he had accumulated in last one-and-a-half decades.