BJP WANTS HARYANA CHIEF MINISTER TO RESIGN
BJP has demanded the resignation of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for 'illegal' denotification and lease of land in Gurgaon to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari, demanded that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda must Resign, and that either a judicial enquiry or High Court-monitored investigation be ordered into the leasing of all land in Haryana.
He said Ms Sonia. Gandhi, as a trustee, must herself provide an explanation.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari, accused Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son and Party General Secretary Rahul and daughter Priyanka Vadra of leasing more than five acres of Panchayat land in Haryana's Ullahawas village for a 'paltry' rent of Rs 3 lakh per annum.
Gadkari said that Chief Minister Hooda violated every provision in the rule book.
"All laws were set aside by the Hooda government to give this land worth Rs 50 crore on lease to the Gandhi family. The land was denotified before it was leased to Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and daughter Priyanka. Why this double standards of the Gandhi family," Gadkari asked.
The land, which belonged to the Panchayat, was reportedly allotted to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and HR Sachdeva, a dentist alleged to be close to the Sonia family.
"If Yeddyurappa had to resign due to denotification of a land, the Hooda government should also resign for denotifying this property," Gadkari said.
Gadkari insisted that the BJP will appeal to the Punjab and Haryana High Court that all aspects of the deal should be investigated by a Special Investigation Team.
Gadkari also demanded that a retired judge conduct a probe into all land acquired by the Hooda government during its tenure.
CONGRESS SPEAKS
The Congress Party instead of saying SORRY for wrong Land Acquisition is giving out excuses of how the Land Acquired would be used for Charity.
First Steal the Land and then designate it as Charity. Shamelessness Indeed!
The Rajiv Gandhi Trust is aghast against those who have compared its getting land on lease from a gram panchayat in Haryana for a charitable eye hospital to the Yeddyurappa land scam in Karnataka.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice on 3 August 2011, after the Bharatiya Janata Party raised the issue.
Congress spoke out at the Opposition and Media. When the Boot is on the other leg, after the Yeddyurappa Resignation, the Congress Cry babies squeal: “misinformed” the public to "confuse and confound" them.
Congress Party stated that the charges levelled against Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka, the Trustees, were "distressing."
The Trustees should have Checked the land before Acquiring It, instead of Crying now!
"The BJP,issued statements without going into the issue. We have not found fault with Yeddyurappa, who has stepped down as Karnataka Chief Minister. The Lokayukta has found him guilty."
Labelling the controversy as a classic case of "misinformation coupled with a complete lack of knowledge of the real facts,” Congress Party told the Media that "even before the Trust's application to lease 5.3 acres in July 2009, the land had been notified for acquisition under Section 4 as part of a much larger batch of 1,417 acres."
Later, 608 acres of these 1,417 acres was dropped from the acquisition during 2010. However, 5.3 acres out of these 608 acres had been leased to the Rajiv Gandhi Trust by the local gram panchayat for 33 years, on an annual rental of Rs. 15 lakh on condition that it build a charitable eye hospital there, performing surgeries priced nominally between Rs. 500 and Rs. 5,000. For those living below the poverty line, surgeries would be performed free of cost.
The Trust would also help set up Self-Help Groups for women and provide vocational training to for locals. If the Trust reneged on these and some other conditions, the land would revert possession to the gram panchayat.
"Those who are trying to politicise the issue are obstructing genuine charitable activity," Congress Party stressed, pointing out that the leased land did not belong to individual farmers. Nonsense Indeed!
The Case filed in a Haryana court had nothing to do with the 5.3 acres, but with the 809 acres that had been acquired: those farmers whose land had been acquired, filed the case.
Hooda must then resign immediately.
Saying that no rules had been bent for the Trust and stressing that the gram panchayat continued to own the land, the Congress Party objected to the BJP, equating Bhatta Parsaul with the Haryana issue.
Bhatta Parsaul in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, recently witnessed an agitation by farmers against the land acquisition policies of the Mayawati government. |
