The Congress-led State Government is hell bent on building a ‘Robert Vadra colony’ dubiously through the Dehradun smart city project on tea-estate land with the online voting for the project also being unfairly influenced in favour of this ulterior motive, claimed Aam Aadami Party (AAP) leader, Anoop Nautiyal while addressing the media here on Thursday.
The AAP leader also released an audio tape of his conversation with an operator of a Kiosk set up by the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) in which the operator tried to influence the choice of voting by insisting that the green field option is the best one. launching a blistering attack on Harish Rawat Government Nautiyal said, “A grab tea estate show is currently going on, the directors of the show are MDDA and Uttarakhand Government while the producer is a tainted real estate company, MRMGF that has links with Robert Vadra. The Government intends not to construct smart city but a Vadra colony as it would covers an area of only 350 hectares’’. He claimed that the both MDDA and Uttarakhand Government are so determined to construct smart city at the land of tea estate that they are even forging the online process of voting presently going on to seek public opinion to select the location of smart city. Nautiyal said that even the format of the online voting is mischievous designed to divide the votes of retrofitting option. He said that the party is sending the audio clipping to the Prime Minister Office (PMO) and Union ministry of Urban development with a demand that online voting on the issue should immediately be scrapped. Nautiyal also questioned the propriety of appointing R Meenakshi Sundaram as nodal officer for the smart city project when the proposal of smart city prepared under his stewardship was placed on the last position among all proposals. He said that Sundaram should be immediately removed from his position. The AAP leader also appealed all the honest officers of state government to provide them evidences of corruption so that the party can take action on them. He said that if the AAP government is formed in the State then the contracts with MRMGF (Tea estate) and Jindal (Nanisar) would be cancelled within three days.