BJP accuses Kapil Sibal of being involved in a land deal

Kapil Sibal hits back over BJP’s ‘land scam’ allegations

OUR CORRESPONDENT/NEW DELHI

Smriti-Irani BJP today accused Congress leader Kapil Sibal of being involved in alleged irregularities in a land deal. Briefing medai here, senior party leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani, while citing media reports, alleged that Mr Sibal purchased land from a person who was accused in a money laundering case.

She said the CBI was investigating the matter during the UPA regime. Ms Irani asked Congress President Rahul Gandhi whether it is acceptable to him that his party leader involves with a person accused in alleged money laundering case.She said Mr Sibal and his wife reported to have acquired a piece of land valued at 89 crore rupees from the Grande Castello Private Limited in the New Delhi municipal area by paying less amount for acquiring the holding company.

She said of all the people why Mr Sibal, the then Law Minister under Manmohan Singh government, had to do business with a money launderer and someone being probed by the CBI “can be best answered by Mr Sibal himself”.

“May be some people will say it is the personal matter of Mr Sibal that he can purchase land from anyone, people might say Mr Sibal has the right to buy a company which has a shadowing existence, people might say Mr Sibal has the right to engage with a so-called money launderer, the question I would like to pose is whether this is politically acceptable to Mr Rahul Gandhi”, she said.
To a question on Mr Gandhi’s tweet on Prime Minister Narendra Modi vis-a-vis the CBSE question leak, Ms Irani skirted a direct reply and said “may be he can now tweet about this (the charge against Mr Sibal).

Ms Irani also said as she was addressing the media at the party office, she was not in a position to answer whether government will order a probe into the entire case.

She said during the tenure of UPA regime, Kapil Sibal and his wife are believed to have bought shares of a company – Grande Castello Private Limited and also land from one individual who was under CBI probe in a banking bribery case.

“How as a Union Minister he was willing to engage with someone with such background”, she asked.

Quoting reports in an Indian website and an South African publication, Ms Irani said Mr Sibal had denied purchasing any such property but his claims were disputed by the South African publication which claimed to have the auditors reports to substantiate the charge.

Kapil Sibal hits back

Kapil Sibal played down allegation by BJP MP Smriti Irani accusing the Congress leader of striking a land deal with a man accused of money laundering in South Africa.

The Congress leader dismissed the allegation as baseless and termed them an attempt to deflect attention from the ongoing CBSE paper leak crisis.

“It is sad that in this country, economics and maths exam papers are leaked which never happened in the past. I have also been the HRD minister. If you talk about Election Commission, election dates are leaked. If you look at Aadhaar, data is leaked. But when they have to protect their own degrees, the information never leaks. So the government knows how to protect information, what they don’t want to be leaked is not leaked.

BJP accuses Kapil Sibal of being involved in a land deal

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