New Delhi, Aug 3 (ANI): Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Wednesday criticised media for dragging Congress President Sonia Gandhi and AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, in controversial land acquisition row.
Various farmers residing in the villages near Gurgaon on Tuesday applied for a petition to the High Court at Chandigarh, stating that their lands had been forcibly acquired for a meagre amount of money by the state government to favour the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust floated by the Gandhi family.
Various media reports revealed Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra were its trustees.
Soni said that it was indiscretionary on the part of media to sensationalise the name of the Gandhi family, in order to increase the Television Rating Points (TRP's) of their respective channels, without scrutinising facts and figures.
"The way you (mediapersons) have used the names of Gandhi family and their photographs more than the name of the trust, for making and sensationalizing your stories, it is not fair at all," she added.
Clarifying all speculations over the dubious land deals, Soni said that the land was acquired for purposes of social service and the deal was completely legal.
"Haryana, where there is less facility available for eye care, there they had appealed to a village council in writing that some land should be allotted to them. So, they were given five acres of the land, which can be given by village council legally, with their full consent. It was only five acres; at some places they have been showing 500 acres or 800 acres. It is quite possible that the then village head might have changed, as I am talking about an incident that occurred two years back," she said.
Soni further slammed the Bharatiya Janata party for unnecessary blowing up the Gurgaon land scam issue and instead asked them to keep a check on their own candidate, former Karnataka chief minister B. S. Yeddyurappa, who recently resigned after he was indicted in an illegal mining scam.
"It is not that only we have accused Yeddyurappa today but one Lokayukta's thousand pages report has indicted him and his ministers. Even today, his party high command is not able to control or do anything about him. Last night, I also saw that Yeddyurappa has said that he would come back within six months. This shows that he is not afraid of law," she said. (ANI)
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