Amidst controversy surrounding land deals of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, the Congress on Friday said that if anybody has something to prove he can take the recourse of the law.
“If anybody has been given anything wrongly, who can stop anyone (from taking legal recourse)IJ There are laws. You do it if you have proof. When there are allegations against, you show it,” Union Minister Kapil Sibal said replying to questions at the AICC briefing on controversial land deals involving Congress leaders and Vadra in some States.
The Congress raised the issue of allotment of land to industrialist Gautam Adani in Guajrat at ‘throwaway’ prices. Quoting a weekly news magazine, Sibal said that 41,62,36,924 square feet of land was allotted to the Adani group for the Mundra port at a price ranging from Rs1 to Rs32 per square metre. He also alleged that Adani also sublet a large portion of the land he was given to other companies at a rate of Rs663 per square metre. “Isn’t this corruptionIJ”
Earlier, the party released a video clip featuring yoga guru Ramdev, who was caught on camera purportedly discussing some money transaction with BJP’s lok Sabha candidate in Alwar, Mahant Chandnath. In the video recorded just before a Press conference, Chandnath is heard telling the “Modi and lK Advani talk big about unearthing black money. Will now BJP withdraw the ticket of the party candidate from Alwar and seek action against him as well as against RamdevIJ This double face is now being exposed whether it is of Modi or Ramdev,” Sibal alleged.
Sibal alleged that Gujarat records an annual turnover of Rs30,000 crore from illicit liquor trade, which, he alleged, was one of the three prime sources of black money in the country.
Sibal also referred to a speech of Modi in which he had said that the black money is an outcome of ‘black minds’ and asked, “Whose Mind Mr ModiIJ YoursIJ Baba Ramdev’s or Mahant Chandnath’sIJ”