BJP objects to Haryana-RIL deal
The BJP on Friday said it will oppose the agreement between Reliance Industries and the Haryana government to set up India's largest Special Economic Zone, which is expected to be signed on Monday.
By PTI |
CHANDIGARH: The BJP on Friday said it will oppose the agreement between Reliance Industries and the Haryana government to set up India's largest Special Economic Zone, which is expected to be signed on Monday.
"We will oppose it strongly. The deal smacks of huge irregularities. No competitive bids were invited and the government has decided to provide favours to a private party at the cost of farmers, who have been given peanuts for a huge chunk of 25,000 acres of land," senior BJP leader and former Union Minister I D Swami told reporters here.
He said that the HSIDC was competent enough to develop the SEZ on its own and there was no need to transfer land at a prime location in Gurgaon district to RIL.
"The interests of people, particularly farmers, have been ignored and all procedures in the deal have been given a go by. Even Congress party's own MP Kuldeep Bishnoi has said the deal stinks and raised questions about it," he said.
"The government should instead have given smaller pieces of land at different places in the backward areas of the state for setting up the SEZ," he added.
Senior Haryana BJP leader Captain Abhimanyu said the party will go to the people to make them aware how the government was "compromising with their interests".
Krishan Moorti Hooda, who recently left the Congress to join the BJP, alleged that Reliance had sponsored the US trip of a relative of state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
"The chief minister always claims to be a staunch Congressman, but few know he had left the party for three years in 1977 before rejoining it," he said.
"We will oppose it strongly. The deal smacks of huge irregularities. No competitive bids were invited and the government has decided to provide favours to a private party at the cost of farmers, who have been given peanuts for a huge chunk of 25,000 acres of land," senior BJP leader and former Union Minister I D Swami told reporters here.
He said that the HSIDC was competent enough to develop the SEZ on its own and there was no need to transfer land at a prime location in Gurgaon district to RIL.
"The interests of people, particularly farmers, have been ignored and all procedures in the deal have been given a go by. Even Congress party's own MP Kuldeep Bishnoi has said the deal stinks and raised questions about it," he said.
"The government should instead have given smaller pieces of land at different places in the backward areas of the state for setting up the SEZ," he added.
Senior Haryana BJP leader Captain Abhimanyu said the party will go to the people to make them aware how the government was "compromising with their interests".
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Krishan Moorti Hooda, who recently left the Congress to join the BJP, alleged that Reliance had sponsored the US trip of a relative of state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
"The chief minister always claims to be a staunch Congressman, but few know he had left the party for three years in 1977 before rejoining it," he said.
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