Union minister Vijay Goel on Friday termed the allegations of AAP leader Dilip Pandey as “baseless, laughable, and sheer madness”.
Union minister Vijay Goel on Friday termed the allegations of AAP leader Dilip Pandey as “baseless, laughable, and sheer madness”. Mr Pandey has asked the ACB to lodge an FIR against the Union sports minister for his alleged impropriety in getting tax waiver for a haveli owned by his son Siddhant in Old Delhi.
Mr Goel highlighted that Haveli Dharampura, along with other heritage buildings of Delhi, was accorded as “notified heritage building” in 2009. At that point, the ownership of Haveli Dharampura was not with him and his family.
“It was AAP leader Manish Sisodia who had proposed the idea to waive off the property and other taxes of heritage buildings which the North Delhi Municipal Corporation had finally executed. In fact, the Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation, chaired by Mr Sisodia in September 2015, had pushed hard to exempt these havelis of 100 per cent property tax, service tax, VAT, luxury tax, entertainment tax, and stamp duty,” pointed Mr Goel.
Mr Goel said that in order to hide the number of criminal and corruption charges, the AAP has resorted to this kind of wild allegations.
“Mr Pandey was himself jailed for provoking communal outrage... AAP leaders have stooped to a new low to hide their crimes and lies,” he added.
