The commission probing the land deals in Haryana, including those allegedly involving Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, is "unconstitutional" as the Assembly's approval was not obtained, alleged Indian National lok Dal leader Dushyant Chautala on Wednesday.
Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala while talking to the mediapersons in New Delhi said, “The Justice Dhingra Commission formed by the Haryana Government is unconstitutional as it was ordered by Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar through a gazette notification without consent from either the cabinet or the assembly.”
The INlD leader said, “How can the State Government make such a big mistakeIJ The Chief Minister must answer on the issue.”
“For setting up any inquiry commission, a formal resolution needs to be either passed by both houses of Parliament or the assembly and only then a gazette notification is published,” said Dushyant.
He also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Haryana of not being serious in probing the shady land deals inked during the previous Congress rule in the state. Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was called by the commission twice, but till date he has not appeared since he knows the commission has no constitutional sanction, alleged the Hisar MP.
The INlD leader also accused the ruling BJP and opposition Congress of being hand in glove in the northern state. “It is evident from the way votes of about 12 Congress MlAs were declared invalid in the Rajya Sabha biennial polls,” he claimed.
Notably, Justice SN Dhingra (retd) Commission of Inquiry was set up in 2015 after the BJP came to power to probe the grant of commercial licences to hundreds of private companies, which included Vadra owned Skylight Hospitality and DlF.
Vadra's company purchased nearly 3.5 acres of land in Shikohpur village on the Delhi-Jaipur-Mumbai National Highway 8 (nearly 43 km from Delhi) but later sold it to the DlF after completing certain formalities during the rule of Congress Government headed by Bhupinder Hooda.