Hooda denies showing favour to any party

With IAS officer Ashok Khemka questioning the role Haryana’s department of town and country planning (DTCP) in Robert Vadra-DLF land deals, chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said his government had not done any favour to any party. 

'We have not done any favour to any party. The chief secretary (P K Chaudhary) is seized of the matter and he is looking into it,' said Hooda.

The Congress has alleged a BJP hand in the land deal controversy in Haryana involving Robert Vadra, alleging that IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who exposed the land deal with DLF, is playing into the opposition's hands. The state Congress has questioned the the timing of raking up of Khemka's views on Vadra's land deal and asked why it has come after the controversy involving Uttar Pradesh IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal in the sand mafia case,  saying no parallel can be drawn between her and Khemka who is openly giving interviews to the media. 'I feel BJP has a role behind it. BJP is politicising the issue. This man is playing into the hands of BJP and attempt is being made to draw a parallel between this and that of Nagpal in UP, which is wrong,' said Congress spokesperson Meem Afzal. Khemka has alleged that Vadra falsified documents for 3.53 acres of land in Gurgaon.