While the heated political exchanges on the Vadra-DLF-Haryana government land deal were expected, The Hindu expose has resulted in the most unexpected attack on the Congress from within.
Rao Inderjit Singh, a three-time Congress MP, four-time MLA and a former Minister, has publicly demanded a detailed investigation into the 21,000-acres of land licensed for various uses in Haryana in the past eight years, including three acres that was part of the Vadra-DLF deal. Fearless of the political fallout, Mr. Singh has now told The Hindu that he can reveal many more names who have been involved in such illegal transactions.
“An independent all-encompassing inquiry will widen the net, haul in big fish and ensure punishment for the guilty. I will take names when I have the evidence. And will use the evidence at a time of my choosing.”
Mr. Singh believes that some 500-600 new and unknown builders are involved — who are cheating both the farmer and the end-user.
The first family of the Congress has never come under such severe and direct attack from an insider who knows so much.
If Mr. Singh does what he says he will, he not only threatens Mr. Hooda’s re-election in Haryana, but makes the first family vulnerable to attacks on its integrity, something it has ring-fenced over the years.
