Robert Vadra has made crores without any investment, alleges BJP

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha on Monday took a dig at Congress Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra over his alleged involvement in land deals in Gurgaon. He called Vadra a highly connected person, who has made crores without even going to a business school or making any investment.

"There is a highly connected person in our country who hasn't gone to a business school but made hundreds of crores of rupees," he said.

Sinha also demanded that the SIT probe should be initiated in the case. "A multi-disciplinary team monitored by the Supreme Court should probe this. Without any investment you can make money, that's a unique model," he said.

Sinha's comments came after Congress didn't allow the BJP to discuss Vadra land deals in Parliament. While Congress leader Manish Tewari said that Congress won't allow discussion on Vadra in Parliament as he is a private individual, the BJP said the party will raise the issue in Parliament.

IAS officer Ashok Khemka has alleged that Robert Vadra falsified documents for 3.53 acre land in the Shikohpur village of Gurgaon.

Khemka claimed that the Vadra-DLF deal was worth Rs 58 crore and that if all land scams in Haryana are taken into account over the past eight years, the value of scams could be between Rs 20,000 and Rs 3.5 lakh crore.

Khemka has also highlighted a series of sham transactions undertaken between his company Skylight Hospitality and DLF Universal Limited - beginning 2011 and culminating in 2012. Khemka claims Vadra was favoured as he is the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi. Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka had kicked up a political storm in 2012 when he alleged irregularities in the land dealings of Robert Vadra and DLF in the state and asked the state government to give him a copy of the inquiry reports conducted by it.

Khemka was transferred from Director General Consolidation of Land Holdings and Land Records-cum-Inspector General of Registration to his present posting in the State's Seed Development Corporation shortly after he initiated a probe into land dealings between Vadra and realty giant DLF. A probe report submitted by four deputy commissioners in Haryana had given a "clean chit" to Vadra over his land deals.