Haryana Government will constitute an enquiry commission headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to probe into the alleged irregularities during the 10-year Congress rule in State, including controversial land deals involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. “A commission headed by a retired Supreme Court judge would enquire into all irregularities committed especially regarding land deals in the Congress rule in Haryana. A notification in this regard will be issued soon,” said Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma while talking to the mediapersons on Wednesday.
The Minister said, “Haryana BJP will hold a meeting of its State executive in Kurukshetra on May 15 and a notification regarding the Commission will be issued on the same day.” According to the information, the Manohar lal Khattar-led BJP Government is in the last stages of constituting the commission. Vadra was accused of accumulating land in the national capital region (NCR) area during the Congress Government in Haryana led by then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. In one particular deal in Gurgaon district, adjoining Delhi, Vadra’s company sold off prime land to realty major DlF for Rs58 crore.
Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who was also present at the Press conference in his capacity as Secretary and Director General, Archaeology & Museums Department, did not wish to comment when asked for his reaction to the BJP Government’s decision to get the land deals of previous Government investigated.
Three years ago, Khemka, who was then posted in another department, had cancelled the mutation of the land deal involving real estate giant DlF and Vadra. Earlier in the day, BJP’s Haryana in-charge and national general secretary Anil Jain said, “The Government will surely go ahead with formalising a commission to look into all the land deals done in previous Congress regime in the state. The process of constituting the panel is in final stages”. On the issue, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij tweeted, “The scams of Rahul Gandhi’s suited-booted brother-in-law Robert Vadra will definitely be probed, but in what way the probe will be held will be decided by the CM.”