Bhupinder Singh Hooda raises questions on Dhingra commission’s constitution, calls it ‘politically motivated’

Hooda accused the BJP government of “targeting an important person of an important political family.

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Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

A DAY before the Justice S N Dhingra Commission is expected to submit its probe report to the Haryana government on grant of land licences to some companies, including that of Robert Vadra’s in Gurgaon during the Congress regime, former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda called it a “witch-hunt” and reiterated that “no special favours were extended to anybody”.

“Not only in Sector 83 of Gurgaon, but across the state, no extraordinary favours were given to anybody,” he said at The Idea Exchange programme of The Indian Express here Tuesday. He raised questions on the commission’s constitution and called it “politically motivated”.

“I can’t say at this moment what the (probe) report is going to be. I will only be able to say something once I see it. But as far as constitution of the commission is concerned, it is politically motivated and it was constituted for political considerations,” Hooda said.

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“My government had not come with a new policy. It was followed by every government. When BJP was part of the state government with Bansi Lal or Om Prakash Chautala, the same policy was followed then too,” he said.

Hooda accused the BJP government of “targeting an important person of an important political family.

“Because they [BJP] want to target one important person of an important family, this [constitution of commission] was politically motivated. Let’s see what the report says. All I can say at this moment is that nobody has been shown extraordinary favours. It was all legal whatever my government did. There was no irregularity,” Hooda said.

Explaining about his non-appearance before the Dhingra Commission despite being called, Hooda said, “The commission gave me a notice to appear. I asked the Commission what would they want from me since I could not carry all records. I told them to convey the particular subject on which they wanted to question me. The commission replied that it had nothing against me… I did not go because no paper was supplied to me and the commission told me that they did not want to confront me on anything.”

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On the Jat quota agitation, Hooda squarely blamed Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for the arson and deaths during the stir in February this year.

“The Prakash Singh report has indicted the Chief Minister’s office. It indicted the Superintendent of Police, Deputy Commissioner, Secretary (Home) and the Chief Minister’s office,” he said.

Calling the accusations levelled against him of fuelling the agitation as baseless, Hooda said, “If the government believes I played a role, why don’t they register an FIR against me?”

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