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Pawar's NCP, IAC deny ex-cop's claims
Thursday October 18, 2012 10:42:39 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: The
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) dismissed as a "publicity stunt"
the charges levelled against party chief Sharad Pawar by former
police officer-turned-lawyer Y.P. Singh here Thursday evening.
India Against Corruption (IAC) also refuted the activist's claim
that it was going soft on Pawar.
Hitting out at the activist, NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said that
Singh's defence of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin
Gadkari "proves where his affiliations are".
"He should concentrate on the matter before the court and win the
case instead of making allegations before the media and conducting
a media trial like this," Malik said.
IAC dismissed Singh's charges that its leader Arvind Kejriwal
suppressed certain information pertaining to Pawar in the
irrigation scam.
Singh Thursday attacked Kejriwal for his Wednesday's Gadkari
"expose" and alleged that the scam involving the BJP chief was
nothing compared to the one indulged in by Sharad Pawar and his
relatives in Lavasa, near Pune.
Malik said that the land given to Lavasa Corporation by
Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation was as per law
and in accordance with the government's policy to encourage
development of new hill stations in the state.
"Sharad Pawar is a visionary and...He supported Lavasa project as
he wants more hill stations to be developed in the state.
Maharashtra did not have a single new hill station after Matheran,
Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar which were developed by the British,"
Malik said.
IAC complimented Singh for raising the issue but clarified on his
claim by saying that Pawar's name was included in the list of 15
ministers against whom it had sought a probe for alleged
corruption.
"Our top office-bearers had also carried out a 10-day dharna
agitation in July. So it is not proper on Y.P. Singh's part to say
that we have kept quiet in the matter of allegations against
Sharad Pawar," IAC said.
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