New Delhi: Delhi lieutenant governor V.K. Saxena will take legal action against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders – including MLAs Atishi, Saurabh Bhardwaj, and Durgesh Pathak – for “false” corruption charges against him, his office said on Wednesday, August 31.The talk of legal action comes after AAP leaders alleged that Saxena during his previous assignment as the chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission, converted banned currency notes to the tune of Rs 1,400 crore during demonetisation in November 2016.Saxena refuted the allegation, calling it a “figment of their imagination”.The LG also said that he will initiate legal action against Jasmine Shah, who is the vice chairman of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi.According to NDTV, a statement from the LG office said, “The LG has taken a serious view of these blatantly false, defamatory and obviously diversionary allegations made by these AAP leaders and has decided to take legal action against them so that the AAP does not get away with its characteristic shoot and scoot.”The official statement further said, “This has been the hallmark of (Arvind) Kejriwal and co. to shoot and scoot and then when pushed for truth, apologise.”The AAP has been pressing for the removal and arrest of Saxena while holding protests outside Delhi Assembly for the last three days. It alleges that Saxena had “pressured” two of his subordinates to exchange currency notes worth Rs 1,400 crore during his tenure as Khadi and Village Industries Commission chairman.During the assembly session on Tuesday, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said, “Delhi LG exchanged notes worth Rs 1400 crore. That was money laundering. When will the CBI question him?”Another AAP leader Atishi said, “This is a blatant case of money laundering where a witness admitted that the black money was ‘whitened’ while under the influence of Saxena. Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act should look into this. CBI and ED should also conduct a raid at every place Saxena has previously worked. He should be sacked from his position until the investigation is finished.”AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj also repeated the allegations. “The allegations were directly leveled against the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena. Despite this, the CBI did not investigate him nor was his name registered in the FIR. This scam was committed when he was the chairman of Khadi Village Industries. In such a situation, the role of Vinai Kumar Saxena should be investigated through CBI and he should be arrested,” India Today quoted Bharadwaj as saying.Upping the ante, a 10-member delegation of AAP leaders marched towards CBI headquarters in Delhi on Wednesday, August 31, to meet with its director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal to press for action against Saxena and also to seek a probe into the alleged toppling of governments in various states by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under ‘Operation Lotus’. However, when they were not allowed to meet Jaiswal, they sat outside the CBI headquarters to raise slogans “Operation Lotus par jaanch karao” and “Khoka khoka band karo”, according to Indian Express.The AAP and BJP have been involved in an intense political slugfest since CBI officials raided Manish Sisodia, alleging a huge scam in formulating the now-withdrawn Delhi excise policy. Sisoda has been named as accused number 1 of the 15 accused in the first information report (FIR) registered by the CBI.