CWG OC ex-officials question CBI move to file more evidence
As soon as the House met, BJP member Rajnath Singh sought to raise the issue of farmers' grievances in some villages in Haryana.Speaker Meira Kumar said she agreed with Singh that landacquisition was a burning issue and urged him to raise the matter during Zero Hour. She then called for the Question Hour.With Chair proceeding with the Question Hour, BJP members trooped into the well shouting slogans against the government for allocation of land to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust at a village in Haryana.They chanted slogans 'Cancel the land allotment to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust', 'Stop harassment of farmers' as Question Hour went on.As BJP members sensed that the Speaker was in no mood to set aside the Question Hour and allow Singh to speak, they started making noise thus drowning the proceedings in din.Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal's contention that the matter was a state subject failed to cut ice with the Opposition.The Speaker took up three questions, but as the uproar increased, she adjourned the proceedings till noon.The Punjab and Haryana High Court has pulled up the Haryana government for flouting laws to grant eight acres land to the Trust.The court had said it was clear that the stategovernment had favoured the Trust run by the Gandhi family by exempting the land from the process while acquiring land for development of Sectors 58-63 in Gurgaon's Ullahawas village. [More]Tags:cwgocex-officialsquestioncbifileevidence