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Chavan
responsible for Adarsh scam: Vilasrao Deshmukh
Monday November 01, 2010 09:36:47 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Differences emerged in the Maharashtra Congress over the Adarsh
Housing Society scam, with union Heavy Industries Minister
Vilasrao Deshmukh accusing Chief Minister Ashok Chavan of changing
the building bye-laws and bringing in civilians into the
cooperative society meant for families of Kargil martyrs.
Deskhmukh, predecessor of Ashok Chavan, said in an interview to
CNN-IBN that he had "cleared some proposals sent by Chavan (then
revenue minister)". He also said that Congress president Sonia
Gandhi had not spoken to him on the matter.
Chavan had met Sonia Gandhi here Saturday and offered to resign in
the wake of the allegations that his mother-in-law and two other
relatives owned flats in the society.
Besides Chavan, the names of other ex-chief ministers - Deskhmukh
and Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde - have also come up
among those who influenced the allotments of flats to civilians.
Both Deskmukh and Shinde's names are being speculated in political
circles as possible successors to Chavan, in case his resignation
is accepted.
On Saturday, Gandhi had appointed a panel of two senior ministers
- Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A.K.
Antony - to probe the scam.
Mukherjee said Sunday night that the panel wanted more time to
probe as it has to "study some documents". He repeated the
statement Monday.
Deshmukh said: "The basic problem why this issue cropped up...
because lot of civilians were accommodated in the society, lot of
flats were given to their near and dear ones. That's the reason
the whole thing cropped up… so if that decision wouldn't have been
there to change the by-laws and allowing 40 percent to civilians
this problem wouldn't have been there."
The former chief minister said : "The enquiry is on… so can't say
unless the result of the enquiry comes out...let there be a
thorough enquiry."
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