Cong MP embarrasses party by demanding probe in Gurgaon land

In an embarrassment to Congress, a party MP from Gurgaon today demanded an inquiry into change of land use from agriculture to commercial or residential in the Haryana city and said anybody who has made money illegally, even if it is Robert Vadra, should he held accountable.
"I feel the administration has not functioned the way it ought to have.... I'm not in the business of prosecuting Robert Vadra... I'm in the business of seeing that land in my constituency if anybody has made money illegally, they should all be held accountable and if that includes Robert Vadra, he should be held accountable as well," party MP Rao Inderjit Singh said.

He was replying to queries on alleged irregularities in Robert Vadra-DLF land deals and the report of whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka.
Later, the MP told reporters that "if an inquiry happens, it will be clear which people from which party are involved in it or not".
He also demanded that the inquiry should not be in just the "four acres" under the Vadra-DLF deals but should also include the 1200 acres which has been released by Haryana government.
Singh said if anybody asked a resident of Gurgaon about land issue, "what comes to his mind is that people from many regions have settled there under doubtful dealings.

"If an inquiry happens, it will be clear which people from which party are involved in it or not. I believe that whenever there is a talk about the change of land use, scam, immoral amassing of wealth, the role of everybody should be probed and not only that of one individual, who is son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi," Singh said.

"I, being a resident of Gurgaon, only want to say that much that 21,000 acres of land was changed from the agricultural land as SEZ in the last five-six years.... Land was given to Reliance for SEZ.
"....So I want the truth to come out ..1200 acre of land was released after 2004 and 2006, this should also be inquired," he said.

Congress was quick to downplay Singh's remarks with party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary saying that the MP has already clarified that he had not said what was being interpreted in media.
The party asserted there is "nothing dirty for us to come clean" on in the Vadra-DLF land deal issue and left it to its government in Haryana to decide the matter.