New Delhi: AAP's chief spokesperson and MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a lie-detector test and say the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are neutral agencies and have nothing to do with his party, the AAP said on Tuesday, as reported by news agency PTI.


"The BJP should ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi to undergo a lie detector and narco-analysis test and say the CBI and the ED are autonomous and neutral agencies and have nothing to do with the BJP and the Centre," AAP's chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj told a press conference.


In the Excise Scam case, the CBI questioned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for more than 9 hours on Monday. 


Earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra on Tuesday asked Sisodia for a "lie detector test" to prove his allegation that the CBI was pressurizing him to quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).


Bharadwaj alleged that Modi is ahead of all other leaders in the country when it comes to telling lies with great ease.


"The prime minister should undergo a lie detector and narco-analysis test and say that his friend was not among those whose loans worth Rs 10 lakh crore were waived," he said, asking, "Will he do that?" After more than nine hours of questioning by the CBI on Monday, Sisodia claimed that he was asked to quit the AAP and join the BJP.


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"Pressure was put on me to quit the AAP. I was offered the Delhi chief minister's post or to face a jail term," the deputy chief minister told reporters.


The CBI, however, dismissed the allegations raised by Sisodia.


"The CBI strongly refutes these allegations and reiterates that examination of Sisodia was carried out in a professional and legal manner strictly as per the allegations against him in the FIR. The investigation of the case will continue as per the law," it said in a statement.


Mishra, who was once a minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government, said the allegations of Sisodia, an accused in the Delhi Excise Policy case, should be seen as a "shameless" attempt to "influence" the ongoing investigation against him.


(With PTI Inputs)