New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal yesterday questioned the Haryana government’s clarification on a 30-acre plot sold to realty major DLF by a hospitality company, saying it should have kept the land for a hospital stipulated to come up there.
The allegations again drew the Congress’s attack, which accused Kejriwal of shooting off his mouth without substantial evidence.
Kejriwal yesterday continued his attack on the Haryana government and said it could have prevented the sale of the land in Gurgaon to DLF and allowed a hospital to be built at the place.
“An honest government would have acquired it for hospital, cancelled the sale. Rather than doing this, it allowed DLF to build an SEZ,” he said.
Kejriwal had on Tuesday released a set of documents to establish alleged quid pro quo between Haryana government and DLF, which has business links with Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
He had said that 30 acres of land in Gurgaon was supposed to be used for constructing a hospital but the Haryana government had issued notifications to allow DLF to use it for an SEZ.
Kejriwal had added that Punjab and Haryana High Court had passed strictures against the Haryana government, terming its action “mala fide” and showing a “nexus”.
Yeddyurappa to leave BJP
in December
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who has been attacking his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for months now, said yesterday that he would leave the party in December and the decision was final.
“The BJP leaders do not want me and I do not need BJP. I will leave the party in December and none can change my decision,” he told reporters on the margins of a function at Jigani on Bangalore’s outskirts.
Yeddyurappa, who became BJP’s first chief minister in Karnataka in May 2008 and was forced out of the office July last year over mining bribery charges, said he was holding talks with his supporters on whether to form a party or join another party.
IANS
