Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who flagged off Rajasthan’s first Vande Bharat Express prepare on Wednesday, in a veiled attack on former Chief Minister of Bihar Lalu Yadav, identified how jobs were given in exchange for lands.
“It was the country’s misfortune that a crucial department like railways, which plays a major role in the life of a common man, was also made an arena of politics… The condition was that there was politics in railway recruitment. By snatching the land of poor people, they were given a job in the railways,” he stated.
Notably, PM Modi was referring to the rip-off whereby it was alleged that jobs were given in Indian Railways in exchange for land.
According to CBI, the 74-year-old chief had issued a number of key initiatives to Delhi Land & Finance (DLF)– a industrial actual property developer– when he was heading the Railway ministry in the UPA-1 authorities. Besides, it was additionally alleged that hundreds of jobs were given in exchange for land.
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