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Anil Vij and Abhimanyu Sindhu say government will order thorough probe, not spare anyone
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Chandigarh: Hours after taking oath as cabinet ministers, Anil Vij and Abhimanyu Sindhu on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government would order a thorough probe into alleged land scams and not spare anyone, even Robert Vadra or former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Sindhu said all the alleged land scams of the previous Hooda government will be probed, while Vij said anyone found guilty will be dealt as per the law. The Congress responded sharply to the remarks.
“We will order a thorough probe into all land scams of the last 10 years. Even if a single inch of land is found to have been acquired in violation of rules, those found guilty will be given exemplary punishment so that no one dares to indulge in such scams in future in Haryana," Sindhu, the Narnaund MLA (member of legislative assembly), told reporters in Chandigarh.
Vij, a five-time MLA from Ambala Cantt, hit out at the previous Congress regime for allegedly indulging in scams and corruption. “Nearly 70,000 acres of land was acquired from farmers and sold at high profits. We will order probe and anyone found guilty, be it any official, Robert Vadra or Bhupinder Singh Hooda or anyone else, will not be spared," Vij told reporters in Chandigarh.
Notably, the BJP and other parties had in the run-up to the assembly polls attacked the previous Hooda government over the Robert Vadra land deal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while campaigning for the BJP in Haryana, had also kept the alleged land scams in the state at the centre of his attack.
The ministers’ remarks drew sharp reactions from the Congress. Senior Congress leader Raashid Alvi said, “This statement shows the arrogance of the Haryana government. No government should take any decision out of revenge. It appears they want to take this decision out of revenge... They (BJP leaders) should remember there is no permanent government in any democratic system... Sometimes they are in power, sometimes in the opposition... They should not make our country like Pakistan," Alvi told a news channel.
“When it was our government, we didn’t investigate the son-in-law of the then Prime Minister... We did not want to set any precedent that people may think that out of revenge we are doing anything... So I demand if they are investigating Vadra (son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi) and they have respect for the law, they should investigate the son-in-law of the former Prime Minister also," Alvi said.
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