"The state government-controlled Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has decided to allot works of Metro-III and Metro-VII, worth Rs 5,000 crore, to a tainted contractor involved in the BMC road repair scam. It shows BJP's double standard on corruption," state Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant said here.
BMC had filed a complaint against M/s J Kumar Infra Projects for irregularities in road repair works, he claimed.
"Despite initiating the process of blacklisting, BMC decided to allot a bridge contract to the same contractor.... High Court passed severe strictures due to which the civic standing committee finally scrapped that contract," he added.
"BMC revoked the license of this contractor. Yet the MMRDA allotted Metro project works to him claiming that it has been given as per the guidelines of Japan International Corporation," Sawant said.
He also said that a Congress delegation would call on the Anti-Corruption Bureau officials tomorrow to seek information on progress of probe in corruption cases against state ministers.