Rajasthan bypolls: BJP leading on three seats, Congress and BAP on two each
The BJP was leading on Deoli Uniara, Khimvsar and Jhunjhunu, the Congress on Ramgarh and Dausa and the BAP on Salumber and Chorasi.
The former BJP Himachal Pradesh president and MP, Suresh Kashyap has alleged the Congress leadership of corruption relating to land grab and demanded resignation on moral grounds after being exposed.
In a statement issued here on Monday, he alleged that the Congress leadership has been exposed after a trust linked to its president Mallikarjun Kharge’s family withdrew its request for the allotment of five acres of civic amenity site in Bengaluru to set up a ‘Multi-Skill Development Centre, Training Institutes and Research Centre’.
“The move by Congress President Kharge’s son Rahul Kharge, who heads the trust, comes following Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife Parvathi returning the 14 sites to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority after the Lokayukta police registered a case against CM Siddaramaiah, his wife and brother-in-law,” alleged Kashyap.These decisions were triggered by adverse CAG reports and legal proceedings, and amounted to a virtual admission that the transactions were wrong, he charged.
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“It was done to escape humiliation in legal proceedings. These leaders have been exposed,” he claimed. A party, which was once associated with Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave’s “bhu daan” (giving away land in charity), is now neck deep in “bhu harap” (land grab) under the “inspiration” of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, he alleged.
Accusing Sonia and Rahul Gandhi of land grab citing the National Herald case, which pertained to alleged capture of the company’s properties at a highly nominal rate, the BJP leader said that the probe began in the case on a court’s direction before his party came to power in 2014.
Such allegations involving land have been levelled against Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel, both former Chief Ministers, and D K Shivakumar, the Karnataka Deputy Chief Ministers among others, he went on to allege.
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