Opposition accuses DGP of getting state favours for a mega housing project.
Opposition accuses DGP of getting state favours for a mega housing project.
CHANDIGARH: The Director General of Police of Punjab is under fire from the opposition parties for promoting a mega housing project of his family, which is worth Rs 250 crore.
The project, which includes construction of a 480-room five star hotel, a convention centre, 182 studio apartments, multiplex with food courts and shopping mall, was clread by a high-powered committee headed by the state chief minister Amarinder Singh in Novermber last. Virk, an IPS officer from Mahatrashtra cadre, is the sleeping partner in the project which also envisages setting up of the Chandigarh International Convention Centre in Mohali district, about 20 km from here.
Akali Dal general secretary Sukhbir Singh Badal alleged that the project has been undervalued and that “the state government allowed him concessions worth Rs 245 crores.” He said on the current market rates, the project would cost not less than Rs 650 crore.
Citing an official letter in which the DGP’s brother, Col (retd) RDS Virk, has made the proposal, Sukhbir said the family promoters claimed their success in the field on the basis of a farmhouse resort, Chimney Heights, where “one of the biggest night clubs in India and a warehouse” was being run. Virk has denied the allegation as baseless and politically-motivated. Badal, however, questioned the moral propriety of the DGP and his family to run “a night club” and demanded his immediate removal from the office. He said an officer who had sought “blatant favours” from the government, could not perform the election duty “impartially and apolitically”.
The Akali Dal, it may be recalled, had earlier complained to the Chief Election Commissioner that the DGP was acting as a “Congress agent”. The CEC, during his visit to the city this week, had warned the DGP against playing a partisan role in the coming Assembly elections.
The DGP clarified that he had not violated service rule by becoming a sleeping partner in the mega project.
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