Chandigarh: In what can spell trouble for Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana has decided to constitute a high-level panel to investigate the land deals during the previous Congress regime.
A report published on a newspaper’s website has quoted BJP’s Haryana in-charge and national general secretary Anil Jain as saying, “We are surely going ahead with formalising a commission to look into all the land deals.”
In March this year, Comptroller and Auditor General in its report attacked the previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda regime saying that “undue favours” were given to builders, including Robert Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality.
The BJP and other Congress rivals had trained their guns on the previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda government accusing it of showing favours to Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in his land deal with realty giant DLF.
Though the report did not name Vadra, his company, Skylight Hospitality, was named. Skylight Hospitality, the report noted, sold a prime 3.5 acre piece of land in Manesar in Gurgaon district to DLF in 2008 for Rs 58 crore.
Earlier, senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka had ordered the scrapping of the land deal, terming it as illegal. However, the previous Hooda government gave clean chit to Vadra in the land deal.
Bureau Report
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