Dubbing the charges levelled by the opposition parties as baseless he asked them to provide specific case where irregularities have been committed in allotment of land.

Claiming that 80 per cent of land plots were allotted during the earlier Congress and RJD governments he said very few allotments were made by the NDA government.

He said land plots were allotted to relatives of former Congress chief minister Chandrashekar Singh and senior Congress leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav.

Besides, he said land was allotted to Yasmeen Foundation in Katihar. Its secretary was Heena Anwar, a relative of NCP leader Tariq Anwar, he added. Yasmeen is the name of the late wife of Tariq Anwar.
Similarly, he said, land was allotted to close aide of LJP leader Shamshuddin at Katihar. A plot was provided to Archies Beverages in Bhojpur district, in the name of Manish Kumar, a close aide of Congress leader Sameer Mahaseth.

Modi alleged aides of senior Congress leaders Veena Shahi and L P Shahi were also allotted land for Tulsi Print at the Pataliputra Industrial Area while in Buxar an aide of Congress leader Jag Narayan Trivedi got land for Durgawati Steel Indistries.

Likewise, Vijendra Choudhary of LJP was allotted four plots in Muzaffarpur Industrial Area while two sons of Congress leader Jagannath Rai were allotted land at Hajipur. Umesh Prasad, an RJD man, also got land at Hajipur, he added. Modi said wherever land had been allotted in the NDA regime it was done on basis of prices fixed on a set formula.

He also dismissed the charges that land plots were given at throw away prices and said instead, the present government has been increasing the price by 10 per cent every year. All tax rebates provided by the state government to encourage those coming forward to set up industries in the state was in accordance with the law, Modi, who also holds the finance portfolio, claimed.

He accused the Opposition of tarnishing the image of the state at a time when people are showing interest in making investment in Bihar and questioned as to why Congress leader Prem Chandra Mishra withdrew his PIL from the Patna High Court after initially lodging a case against filmmaker Prakash Jha for being allotted land by the state government.

Political observers are of the view that Modi, by taking so many names, had raised a few more questions. He, in a way, conceded that efforts were made to industrialize Bihar in the past too but like now political class was the real beneficiary of allotment of land. Though he cited several names not knowing that some of them later in their political career travelled through several political parties and even flirted with the NDA.

What he failed to mention is that even in 1980s the then Opposition opposed the irregularities in the BIADA land allotment. Modi was then in the opposition.

Thus, it appears to the case of pot calling Dubbing the charges levelled by the opposition parties as baseless he asked them to provide specific case where irregularities have been committed in allotment of land.

Claiming that 80 per cent of land plots were allotted during the earlier Congress and RJD governments he said very few allotments were made by the NDA government. He said land plots were allotted to relatives of former Congress chief minister Chandrashekar Singh and senior Congress leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav.

Besides, he said land was allotted to Yasmeen Foundation in Katihar. Its secretary was Heena Anwar, a relative of NCP leader Tariq Anwar, he added. Yasmeen is the name of the late wife of Tariq Anwar.
Similarly, he said, land was allotted to close aide of LJP leader Shamshuddin at Katihar. A plot was provided to Archies Beverages in Bhojpur district, in the name of Manish Kumar, a close aide of Congress leader Sameer Mahaseth.

Modi alleged aides of senior Congress leaders Veena Shahi and L P Shahi were also allotted land for Tulsi Print at the Pataliputra Industrial Area while in Buxar an aide of Congress leader Jag Narayan Trivedi got land for Durgawati Steel Indistries.

Likewise, Vijendra Choudhary of LJP was allotted four plots in Muzaffarpur Industrial Area while two sons of Congress leader Jagannath Rai were allotted land at Hajipur. Umesh Prasad, an RJD man, also got land at Hajipur, he added. Modi said wherever land had been allotted in the NDA regime it was done on basis of prices fixed on a set formula.

He also dismissed the charges that land plots were given at throw away prices and said instead, the present government has been increasing the price by 10 per cent every year. All tax rebates provided by the state government to encourage those coming forward to set up industries in the state was in accordance with the law, Modi, who also holds the finance portfolio, claimed.

He accused the Opposition of tarnishing the image of the state at a time when people are showing interest in making investment in Bihar and questioned as to why Congress leader Prem Chandra Mishra withdrew his PIL from the Patna High Court after initially lodging a case against filmmaker Prakash Jha for being allotted land by the state government.

Political observers are of the view that Modi, by taking so many names, had raised a few more questions. He, in a way, conceded that efforts were made to industrialize Bihar in the past too but like now political class was the real beneficiary of allotment of land. Though he cited several names not knowing that some of them later in their political career travelled through several political parties and even flirted with the NDA.

What he failed to mention is that even in 1980s the then Opposition opposed the irregularities in the BIADA land allotment. Modi was then in the opposition.

Thus, it appears to the case of the pot calling the kettle black, one of them said.

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