Maya’s U-turn, returns Rae Bareli land for rail factory

The report of Net Ram, the Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary who was assigned to inquire into the matter after the land allotment was cancelled by the government last week, was presented in the state cabinet today which took a decision for leasing out the land, she said.

On the withdrawal of land allotment earlier which had stalled Sonia Gandhi’s planned ‘bhoomi pujan’ there and triggered a political storm, Mayawati said the action was ‘illegal’ as proper cabinet approval was not taken for the same.

“A recommendation in principle for the same had been made by me earlier after which it had to be placed before the cabinet but it was not done”, she said.

In an oblique attack on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati said the ‘drama’ over the land allotment was enacted by the Congress chief keeping in view coming Lok Sabha polls.

Referring to a notification published in newspapers a couple of days ago that 940 acre of land was in possession of the Railways, Mayawati said why bhoomi pujan was not done then and a hue and cry was made over it simply to gain political mileage by Congress.