Cong link in Associated’s Mumbai plot

Cong link in Associated’s Mumbai plot

Housing society comes up in plot allotted to Associated Journals for press, library in ’83

Kavitha Iyer l Mumbai

Amid allegations that the Congress party gave an interest-free loan to Associated Journals Ltd with an eye on the company’s real estate assets, it now emerges that the company that publishes National Herald and Quami Awaz was allotted a prime plot of land by the government of Maharashtra in suburban Mumbai, ostensibly for a press and a Nehru memorial library, neither of which was built. While a large part of the plot remains vacant after being allotted in 1983, one portion was parcelled off in 2000 to a housing society floated by Congressman Rajiv Chavan in which former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh is a member. This land, facing the Western Express Highway and a stone’s throw away from Bandra station, is now home to Sai Prasad Housing Society, home to Singh, Chavan and a bunch of top bureaucrats some of who already owned other properties in the city and some others who are under the scanner in the Adarsh scam. Continue reading this story at http://epaper.dnaindia.com/story.aspx?id=31232&boxid=27298&ed_date=2012-11-05&ed_code=820009&ed_page=1

Published Date:  Nov 05, 2012