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This is an archive article published on August 13, 2013

BJP takes on govt over Vadra land deals,terms it ‘serious case of fraud’

The entire government machinery was misused to benefit a person related to an important personality,says BJP.

Upping the ante on Robert Vadra’s controversial land deals in Haryana,BJP today termed it as a “serious case of fraud with a nationalised bank”. After a meeting of BJP’s Parliamentary Party,Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ravishankar Prasad rejected Congress contention that the matter was state related.

“It is not a state subject. This is an issue of a serious bank fraud. It is a case of enrichment through the use of authority by collusion,of a fraudulent bank document and banking documents’ manipulation becomes clearly a national subject apart from the larger issue of corruption.

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“How the documents of a nationalised bank were used for land transfer. How the entire government machinery was misused to benefit a person related to an important personality. We will like to raise it and will demand that we are allowed to raise the issue in both Houses and that Government must promise a fair probe,” Prasad told reporters.

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The BJP leader also said that his party plans to raise the issue of Kishtwar communal riots in Jammu and Kashmir once again in Parliament and has given a notice for it in the Rajya Sabha.

“Arrests have started taking place there only since yesterday. The manner in which the police was sitting idle.

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There was delay in the deployment of Army,though it is available in Kishtwar itself. Senior leaders of BJP had raised the issue before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,” he said.

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Yesterday,the BJP had raised the issue in Lok Sabha. Prasad also hit out at Finance Minister P Chidambaram for his statement in Rajya Sabha on the Telangana issue, saying,”It makes the confusion worse,confounded.”

Lok Sabha adjourned

The Lok Sabha today witnessed uproar during Question Hour with opposition targeting the government on several issues including alleged dubious land deals of Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra,violence in Kishtwar and solar scam in Kerala.

Soon after obituary references,members from various parties were on their feet to raise different issues.

Though there was pandemonium on several matters,it was the Vadra issue that led to an adjournment till noon.

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Raising the issue,Yashwant Sinha (BJP) said,”Though there are several business schools which teach models of making money,there is one highly connected person who did not go to any such school but has given a model where no investment is made but windfall gains of thousands of crores are made.”

Congress members were on their feet in protest. Sanjay Nirupam walked into the Well and protested against BJP’s charge.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath and his deputy Rajiv Shukla,both seated in the front row,were on their feet. BJP members countered them from their seats.

With the House in disorder,Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned it till noon. Earlier,Yogi Adityanath (BJP),who was asked by the Speaker to speak on violence in Kishtwar,said the government in Jammu and Kashmir has not woken up to the threat posed by separatist forces.

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He charged the state administration with not taking appropriate measures when violence broke out on August 9.

He warned that the situation is fast turning into one similar to 1990 when “Hindus and Sikhs were forced to migrate” from the Valley.

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