Training guns on his predecessor Bhupinder Singh Hooda who was booked in a case of alleged irregularities by Gurgaon police, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said Thursday that if one has done no wrong then he should have nothing to fear.
Khattar also said that Hooda's dubbing of the FIR against him as "political vendetta" was not correct. The chief minister was speaking to reporters after addressing a rally at Naraingarh in Ambala district.
Asked to comment on the case against Hooda, Khattar said the Congress leader had said in the state Assembly that he was not afraid of any investigation.
"Now why he is terming the case as political vendetta, which is not true," Khattar said. Khattar's attack on Hooda came a day before the monsoon session of the state Assembly begins here.
Khattar said if a serious complaint is received against anyone, particularly when it is related to corruption, investigation would definitely be conducted. "If one is not guilty and has done no wrong, then he should have nothing to fear," he added.
Hooda and Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, were among others booked by Gurgaon police Saturday in connection with alleged irregularities in land deal in Gurgaon.
Hooda had said in Jaipur on Tuesday that the BJP government was pursuing "vendetta politics". Hooda claimed there was no land scam during his tenure as chief minister and alleged the case against him was lodged to divert people's attention from the "controversial" Rafale aircraft deal.
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The FIR was lodged by the Gurgaon police after a complaint from one Surinder Sharma, resident of Nuh.
The FIR said Vadra's Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd purchased 3.5 acre of land in Gurgaon's Sector 83 from Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.50 crore in 2008, when Hooda was the chief minister and held the portfolio of Town and Country Planning Department.
Later, Skylight Hospitality sold this land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore, after procuring a commercial licence for development of the colony with the influence of Hooda, Sharma alleged.
Sharma had alleged that irregularities in the land deal caused a huge loss to the exchequer. The BJP had made the alleged controversial land deals during previous Congress regime a major poll issue in 2014.
Meanwhile, addressing a thanksgiving rally of the 'Bhavantar Bharpayee Yojana' scheme at Naraingarh, Khattar said the scheme would be made more profitable for the farmers.
For this, quality testing labs would be established in all 'mandis', he said.
In case farmers find no buyer for their produce, the same would be procured through government procuring agency and the calculation of average value would be fixed on the basis of prices of four nearby mandis, he said.