Click to play videoKolkata: Former Indian cricket team skipper Sourav Ganguly in the midst of a controversy over a prime plot of land allotted to him in Kolkata's posh Salt Lake area by West Bengal government.
Ganguly wants to build a school on the land but is facing resistance from local residents and an NGO, who say he got an undue favour.
They allege that the state government doled out undue favour to grant him this prime plot at a throwaway price.
Replying to an RTI application, the government has admitted to granting a lease of the one acre plot to Ganguly for a little over Rs 20 lakh instead of smaller plot.
According to the Opposition in the local municipal body the market value of the land is 100 times what Ganguly paid.
"In the same area, Salt Lake plot IB 195 and plot DJ 4... both have been auctioned by KMDA, a nodal body of the urban development department, where it raised to Rs 33 lakh per cottah. The government is losing an amount of Rs 20 crore from this exchange," claims Trinamool Councillor of Salt Lake Municipality Debasish Jana.
Ganguly, however, feels this isn't a matter worth taking seriously.
"These are minor issues and I'm sure that happens everywhere. Where ever you do something it happens and I'm sure we'll be able to solve it," hopes Ganguly.
But for the residents of Salt Lake it's not a minor issue and they are now planning to move court.
The Prince of Kolkata may consider himself unfortunate in finding the people of Kolkata as his latest opponents.
But the West Bengal government has a few uncomfortable questions to answer over the controversial deal which, many allege, isn't its first show of "special favour" towards the former India skipper.
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