New Delhi: The acquisition of land in Haryana for the Rajiv Gandhi foundation has been adding to the Congress' woes. CNN-IBN has now accessed documents to show that the land use law was deliberately changed to help the foundation. On October 20, 2010 the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust applied for Change of Land Use (CLU) to utilize village common land to set up an eye hospital. On December 1, 2010,...
07:54 AM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Congress over the "irregularities in land allocation" to a trust in Haryana, BJP on Thursday demanded the resignation of state Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. "There are a lot of irregularities in allocation of five acres of prime land to the trust. It is high time Hooda must quit," BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters outside Parliament. Haryana has leased five...
04:43 PM, Aug 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday over the acquisition of land for the Rajiv Gandhi trust in Gurgaon. The villagers of Ullawas village in Gurgaon have rejected the Hooda government's overtures. The villagers of Ullawas village are holding a Kisan panchayat on Wednesday to protest against the Haryana government's preferential treatment to the Gandhis. They have decided to go to court to get their land back, having...
01:03 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Reacting to the CNN-IBN expose on Haryana land deals favouring the Rajiv Gandhi Trust, the Congress has said that no rules were bent and that land was only given on lease. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, "The land was leased to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust for eyecare. The trust does not own the land." Singhvi claimed, "Not a single rule has been bent, the Gram Panchayat...
07:50 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to relook at acquisition of land for the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust after CNN-IBN on Monday reported how the trust was given land breaking rules and regulations. In all, 65 petitions in Punjab and Haryana High Court have now claimed the "Gandhis as trustees" tag swung the deal. On Tuesday the Haryana government offered to reconsider the cases of the 65 petitioners that alleged...
11:27 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday downplayed the political controversy surrounding the land allotment to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Haryana in wake of the Punjab and Haryana High Court court summoning all records related to it. "This matter is between the Haryana government and the High Court. The state government should accept whatever decision the court takes. This issue (of land acquisition) does not concern one trust but thousands...
11:17 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: A day after a court pulled up the Haryana government for unlawfully allocating land in Gurgaon to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday asked the Congress if its stand on the case will be the same as that on Bhatta-Parsaul in Uttar Pradesh. Talking to reporters, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said that land belonging to villagers was unlawfully taken away. "It was...
07:33 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Haryana government will reconsider the acquisition of over 850 acres of land in Gurgaon that the 'Gandhis as trustees' tag swung the deal. CNN-IBN had reported on Monday how 8 acres of land was given by the Haryana government to the Rajiv Gandhi trust to set up a charitable hospital. A bunch of 65 petitions was filed by landowners, contending that the 'Gandhis as trustees' tag swung...
12:21 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Punjab and Haryana High Court pulled up the Hooda government on Monday for flouting land laws in order to aid the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Gurgaon's Ulawas village. It is being reported that the site for the Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital and Research Centre in Gurgaon's Ulawas village, to be set up by the Trust, was granted eight acres of land in violation of the land...
08:57 PM, Aug 01, 2011
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The Congress was constructing a house cum guest house in Rae Bareli. ...
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