Congress on Thursday described the probe ordered by the Uttar Pradesh government into the Ayodhya land scam as an “eyewash” and demanded a probe by the Supreme Court, alleging that Ram Temple Trust’s money is being misused by leaders of RSS-BJP and government officials.
Party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the alleged corruption by Trust members, BJP and RSS leaders and officials in the buying of land for the temple was “loot” and “misuse” of donations, even as she questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
She told a press conference that the buck does not stop just at the Chief Minister’s door but leads to the Prime Minister’s, as donations for the construction of the temple were received from across the country and they cannot escape “moral responsibility”.
Priyanka cited an instance of alleged corruption and claimed that a part of a plot of land measuring 10,000 square metres was sold to the Trust for Rs 8 crore. The remaining 12,000 sq metres of the plot was first sold to Ravi Mohan Tewari for Rs two crore and within five minutes he sold it to the Trust for Rs 18.5 crore and Ayodhya Mayor Rishikesh Upadhyay and Trustee Anil Mishra were witnesses to the deal.
She said that there was a 1,300% per cent rise in land price within five minutes while…
