http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 882822.cmsCHANDIGARH: Having wrested control of Haryana, will BJP cancel the controversial Robert Vadra land deal? Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used the issue to the hilt during campaigning. He had said in a rally at Hisar, "They know that after the elections, damadji (Vadra) will not get clearances for illegal deals. Between the election process, they have dared to take such a decision (of legalizing the deal)."
The Election Commission had found that the deal was legalized before the model code was enforced, but that did not matter. Modi's oratory ensured that the Rs 58-crore deal between Vadra's Skylight Hospitality and DLF in Gurgaon becomes the biggest symbol of Congress misrule in Haryana.
Sources said the new government is likely to cancel the three-acre deal in Shikhopur village that brought allegations of corruption to the doorstep of 10 Janpath and shook the foundations of UPA-2 ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
According to legal experts, if the new government wants, it can uphold orders passed by whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka who had cancelled the deal. Khemka had cancelled the mutation of the land deal on October 15, 2012, sparking a controversy after which the Haryana government had chargesheeted him for acting beyond his jurisdiction. The officer has been shunted to a low profile post since then and heads the Haryana archives department.
Senior lawyer in Punjab and Haryana high court Anupam Gupta said the simplest and fastest way for the new government to turn things around is to issue an order from the chief secretary's office nullifying the July 16, 2014 order of Gurgaon deputy commissioner clearing the deal.