‘Our connection only spiritual!’

1 Swadeshi Jagaran Foundation • Area allotted: 1,209.6 sq yards in Mehrauli-Badarpur Road. • Price paid: Rs 1,818 per square yard....

1 Swadeshi Jagaran Foundation
• Area allotted: 1,209.6 sq yards in Mehrauli-Badarpur Road.
• Price paid: Rs 1,818 per square yard.
• Market rate: Rs 50,000 per square yard.
• Men who matter: Foundation chairman is Mahesh Chand Sharma, former MP and an RSS member. Other members like Sita Ram Bharadwaj and Murli Dhar Rao are also RSS members.
• Stated objective: Office premises for Swadeshi Jagran Foundation whose main activities include research projects in swadeshi, printing pamphlets and books and providing support to Swadeshi Jagran Manch which organises activities on the same line.
• Says Sharma: ‘‘Our connection with the Sangh is ideological and spiritual. The foundation has a marketing and a research wing and we applied for space for that.’’

2. Mukherjee Adarsh Siksha Samiti
• Area allotted: 1,300.8 square yards at Sarojini Nagar in July 20, 2001.
• Price paid: Rs 1,818 per square yard
• Market rate: Upwards of Rs 1 lakh per square yard.
• Men who matter: Chairman of the Samiti is Sarojini Nagar BJP MLA Ram Bhaj
• Stated objective: Education.
• Says Ram Bhaj: ‘‘This is a personal matter. I have finally got something after 40 years of struggle. And I have followed all procedures for allottment.’’

3. Child Education Society
• Area allotted: 4 acres or 19,360 yards at Dwarka in 1998-99.
• Price paid: Rs 1,73,95,840 or Rs 898.5 per square yard
• Market rate: Rs 5,000 per square yard
• Men who matter: Former Delhi Transport minister in BJP government Rajendra Gupta is the general secretary of the society which was founded by his father, the late mayor of Delhi, Lala Hansraj.
• Stated objective: The society runs the prominent Bal Bharti School which has six branches across the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
• Says Gupta: ‘‘The society got the land due to merit and not due to my presence on the board. If it was because of me, then we would not have been rejected so many times.’’
4. Laghu Udyog Bharti
• Area allotted: 571.2 square yards, Kotla Road, Rouse Avenue on July 2002.
• Price paid: Rs 1,818 per square yard.
• Market rate: Rs 96,000 per square yard.
• Men who matter: K S Sudarshan Chief of RSS is listed as ‘Margdarshak’ of the organisation. President S S Agarwal, Vice President Satya Pal and Vishram Jamdar, General Secretary are all members of RSS.
• Stated objective: Office premises for the organisation which promotes small scale industries.
• Says ex-president Sudarshan Sareen: ‘‘We do not have any interference from the RSS but if we need help we approach them.’’
5 Saraswati Education Society
• Area allotted: 960 square yards in Vasant Kunj
• Price paid: Rs 21,74,450 or Rs 2,265 per square yard
• Market rate: Rs 60,000 per square yard.
• Men who matter: RSS Mahamantri Khajan Chandra Bathla who is head of the Samarth Shiksha Samiti which runs the Saraswati Education Society.
• Stated Objective: Runs various Saraswati Bal Mandirs across the Capital in places like Amar Colony, Hari Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Rajouri Garden and RK Puram.
• Declined to comment.
6 Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Seva Sangh
• Area allotted: 960 square metre in Rohini.
• Price paid: Rs 21,74,480 or Rs 2,265 per square yard.
• Market rate: Rs 24,000 per square yard.
• Men who matter: Chairman is BJP executive member Ramesh Chandra Shastri.
• Stated objective: Education.
• Says Shastri: ‘‘We want to expand the school as the land is next door. Children already play in the land.’’
7. Sanskar Bharti, listed as an RSS affiliate on its website
• Land allotted: 571.2 square yards in Rouse Avenue in Feburary 2002.
• Price paid: Rs 1,818 per square yard
• Market rate: Rs 96,000 per square yard
• Men who matter: Shalendranath Srivastava (President), Jagdish Pal (General Secretary)
• Stated objective: To spread and retain Hindu culture.
• Says Pal: ‘‘Organisations like this one need to be strengthened because we are all forgetting our culture. How many people know about the Hindu New Year for example?’’

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