India Against Corruption on DLF issue

India Against Corruption

On Haryana Government’s statement on DLF issue

1.       The Haryana Government, in its statement released on 9^th Oct, has accepted that when the government had acquired land for residential purpose, East India Hotels Ltd was given 30 acre land for building a hospital in 1995. The Haryana Government has also accepted that the company did not build the hospital till 2005. This raises a suspicion on Haryana government as even though the company did not build the hospital for such a long period neither was any action taken against the company nor was the land taken back by the government. On the other hand East India Hotels sold the land to DLF Limited and the government permitted this transaction even when there was a clear change in use of land (used for developing SEZ and not hospital)

The question that arises is why did Haryana govt. allow the sale of land which is being used for development of SEZ when it was supposed to have been used for construction of a hospital? Also that later Robert Vadra had a 50% share in DLF SEZ Holdings Pvt. Ltd. raises suspicion on the motive behind this sale of this piece of land.

2.       Haryana govt has also said that the density in the two master plans of Gurgaon-Manesar complex is the same and it is only the unit that changes i.e. persons per acre in plan 2025 and persons per hectare in plan 2031. IAC has gone through both the plans (See Pg 11 of Notification 2025 and page 8 of Notification 2031) and their respective notifications. Nowhere do they mention the unit of ‘person per acre’. In both the plans the density has been mentioned in persons per hectare. Once again the govt. has made an attempt to divert from the main issue. The point in focus is that the special pocket carved out in Gurgaon, which is allowed to have a density of 2.5 times more than the Gurgaon average, has its boundary same as the boundary of DLF Phase V. Incidentally the same phase has the DLF projects of Magnolia and Aralias where Robert Vadra has many properties to his companies’ name. Is it then not very clear that the increased density in Gurgaon Master Plan is one of the quid pro quo for DLF which has been selling property at throwaway prices to Vadra in the same area?

On Salman Khurshid and Louise Khurshid issue

Yesterday a TV channel had exposed a scam involving an NGO in which Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife are involved. It was revealed by the channel that the Center had released funds for the welfare of handicapped people, which were siphoned off. The signatures of Government officers have been forged, which is a very serious matter.  

We demand that: Firstly, an FIR should be lodged immediately in the case.  Secondly, Louise Khurshid who was the project manager of the NGO should be arrested immediately because being powerful she may tamper easily with the evidence. Thirdly, Salman Khurshid should resign immediately from the cabinet. Therefore, since this incident has taken place in Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav who has said that this matter would be investigated should get an FIR filed immediately and get the case investigated. If this does not happen then there would be a suspicion that SP and UPA are hand in glove with each other. People would suspect that there is an “understanding” between the UPA and SP that UPA would help SP from the centre whenever there are cases against SP and SP would return the favor.

Today, several disabled people had come to India Against Corruption office to discuss the issue. It was decided that India Against Corruption along with the disabled persons will gherao the residence of Sonia Gandhi to demand the resignation of law minister Salman Khurshid and arrest of his wife who has been found involved in misusing funds meant for disabled.