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The Amar Singh episode came handy to state PWD Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui in hitting back at Leader of Opposition Shivpal Singh Yadav during the debate on the Governors address at the state Assembly on Friday.
In his speech on Thursday,Yadav had levelled allegations of corruption against ruling party leaders and said that it was a government of scams.
Siddiqui said that it was Yadav and other SP leaders who had amassed money when in power. A person who was PRO in a small company,turned SP leader and accumulated billions after the SP came to power. He owns prime properties in Lucknow and has been named in a PIL filed in the Supreme Court by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, he said.
The minister added that this person has now parted company with SP and also taken away the huge wealth generated from scams in the PWD during the SP regime.
I wont reveal the name of the person since he is not the member of the House,but the Leader of Opposition knows this person very well. But the Leader of Opposition is now helpless,so he is making wild allegations against the BSP government, said Siddiqui,much to Yadavs discomfiture.
Yadav was the PWD Minister in the Mulayam Singh Yadav government.
Siddiqui then went on to ask: Who owns plot no. 93 of 3,10 sq ft at Dilkusha? Who owns plot 31A/884 at Gomti Nagar? Who is the owner of over one bigha land,purchased in Kamta village on Faizabad Road in Lucknow on September 23,1997? Who owns 23,873 sq ft plot on Vikramaditya Marg? The Leader of Opposition knows all this.
What can I do if somebody has ran away with the huge wealth collected during the previous regime? The Leader of Opposition should mind his own skeletons tumbling out,rather than attempting to expose the BSP government, said the PWD Minister.
What is Bihari Construction Company which was given PWD contracts worth hundreds of crores during the SP regime? The Leader of Opposition knows Bihari and whose driver he was. Who is Rajeev Yadav? The Leader of Opposition knows him well too, he added.
Siddiqui said he had mentioned just two names from the long list of contractors and other beneficiaries during the SP regime.
Heavens will fall if I reveal the whole list, he added.
Yadav,while replying to the allegations,said Bihari was his driver,but he had no say in his business activities.
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