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CBI/ED liquor-policy probe, loss recovery and a new transparent excise policy

Bharatiya Janata Party · Delhi Legislative Assembly Election 2025

Last updated 6 Jun 2026

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Meaningful delivery has occurred, but the stated commitment is incomplete.

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Original manifesto wording

“We will cooperate with the CBI and ED for a time-bound investigation of the AAP-DA’s liquor policy, ensuring that the guilty leaders are punished and the revenue loss from this scam is fully recovered. Additionally, we will end the current liquor licensing policy and implement a new, transparent and accountable policy.”

From the Bharatiya Janata Party manifestoView Manifestop.16

Our Assessment

Mixed delivery. Investigations into the 2021-22 excise policy by the CBI and ED — which predate this government — continue, and the CAG report on the policy (about ₹2,026 crore loss) was tabled in the first Assembly session, with the Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee taking it up. But the pledge’s other elements are incomplete: there is no confirmation of full recovery of the alleged revenue loss, and the promised new, transparent excise policy has not been implemented — the government has instead repeatedly extended the existing duty-based, government-run regime (for 2025-26 and again for 2026-27) while a new policy drafted by a committee under PWD Minister Parvesh Verma remains in progress. Marked partial.