Kapil Sibal hits back over BJP’s ‘land scam’ allegations
OUR CORRESPONDENT/NEW DELHI
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.
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).
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.