New Delhi: The AAP today demanded a CBI inquiry into MCD pensions scheme alleging Rs 2,000 crore scam, a charge refuted and dubbed as a ploy to defame the civic bodies by the BJP. The AAP claimed that the "scam" is a tip of iceberg in the alleged irregularities in the civic bodies and it will take all legal options, including filing a petition in the appropriate court, for a probe into the matter.

Addressing the media, Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Kapil Mishra said, "It is an extremely serious issue that poor sanitation workers in the MCDs are politically and economically exploited. On the other hand, a scam went on unchecked for nearly two decades in the undivided MCD and later on even after trifurcation."