Hisar: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the Election Commission to take "appropriate action" over the Haryana government's approval of a controversial landdeal between Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and realty giant DLF.
Modi said it was for the poll panel to take cognizance and "appropriate action" in this matter since the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government had violated the model code of conduct by granting the approval ahead of the Oct 15 assembly elections.
"It looks as if the 'danda' (pressure) has come from the top. The Election Commission should take cognizance and appropriate action in this regard," Modi told a BJP election rally in this Haryana town. "This action shows that Hooda and the Congress have accepted defeat in the forthcoming polls and are trying to approve such matters," he said. The Rs 580 million land deal between Vadra's company and DLF was cancelled in October 2012 by Ashok Khemka, a senior IAS officer in Haryana.
Ridiculing the Congress, Modi said: "The Congress should be ashamed. It has not given an account of its 60 years of sins while in the government. But they are questioning my government after just 60 days."
Throw out dynastic politics
Addressing an election meeting in Kurukshetra, Modi asked the electorate to throw out dynastic politics and nepotism and elect a BJP government with majority, saying he did not want the support of “dangerous” people lodged in Tihar Jail, apparently referring to former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala.
Modi said people should throw out those parties whose leaders were only interested in promoting their interests and that of their family at the cost of development and ensure that they do not get a single seat in the assembly.
“In the 25-year history of the state, has democracy been allowed to be saved? Here there is no democracy even in any party. Here, politics of dynasty is prevalent and not democracy. Whosoever has come to power, his family has ruled over the state. Whichever government came, his family grew but the state was left behind. Families have looted the state and they have done politics in the name of dynasty and caste. After taking power, they took care of nobody except their families,” he said.
