Dehradun, Oct. 11 -- The Congress and the BJP continue to spar over the allotment of two plots in the IT Park area of Dehradun to a private real estate company. While Congress state president Karan Mahara has accused the government of transferring public land meant for an IT hub to a builder for commercial gain, BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Bhatt has strongly refuted the allegations, asserting that the land in question was residential and separate from the IT Park.
During an interaction with media persons here in Dehradun, Mahara had alleged that the state government had handed over valuable land, originally intended for IT-based industries, to a private company engaged in constructing flats for sale in the open market. ...