India, Oct. 29 -- Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) MLA Rohit Pawar on Tuesday questioned the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over its approval for the transfer of a 1,378 square-metre plot in south Mumbai to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for constructing its Maharashtra headquarters. Seeking clarification from the civic body, Pawar pointed out that the Supreme Court has directed that such government or semi-government land must be auctioned in a transparent and competitive process.

Union home minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for the new Maharashtra BJP office on a plot near Churchgate railway station on Monday. Pawar had then criticised the BJP, alleging that the Maharashtra Housing Finance Corpora...