Urban Development Minister CP Singh on Friday broke into tears while refuting the charges of owning “huge properties” in various States, leveled by the JMM.
“It was an attempt to malign my clean image as a social servant. Within the next one or two days, I am going to file a defamation suit against JMM MlA Kunal Sarangi and the party spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya, who have alleged that I owned huge properties worth crores in Puri, Kolkata and Gurgaon,” said Singh, who had undergone a major heart surgery recently.
Addressing the media persons at his official residence, he claimed that he did not own any property in this universe, except in Ranchi and Palamu. The Minister became emotional while speaking following which he took a pause of few minutes to regain the momentum to speak.
Sarangi, on Thursday, had demanded resignation from Singh as well as the Housing Board Managing Director Dilip Kumar Jha, for allegedly getting a land plot allotted by Jharkhand State Housing Board hiding the facts. Singh also happens to the Housing Minister.
Singh, accepting the fact that he had bought a 3,000 square feet plot at Harmu Housing Colony in Ranchi, claimed that the allegations made against him that he did not disclose it before the Election Commission was not correct. “It has been mentioned in the Income Tax return filed by him since 2009 that the plot was owned by him costing `9, 40,480,” he added.
Singh also questioned a section of media for not verifying the facts before publishing it.
Singh, however, denied having any information regarding the affidavit filed by his wife while making the purchase of plot number C/122 at Harmu Housing Colony from Janaki Jha of Patna declaring that she did not own any plot in Ranchi. According to the rules, a person owning any plot within the radius of 8 km cannot be allotted a plot by the housing board.
Maintaining that no one was above the law, the veteran BJP leader also declared that accept properties in Palamu and his ancestral and self owned properties in Ranchi, he does not own any kind of movable and immovable property in this universe.