Congress MLA Aditi Singh is in news again with another issue that could cause a huge face-off between her and the Gandhis.
Singh has written to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) alleging huge irregularities in the Kamla Nehru Educational Society. Aditi’s charge is that, apart from financial irregularities, the trust is also guilty of illegal land conversion. She claims that the land allotted to the trust was to be used for girls’ education which never happened. She further claims that there are now attempts being made to sell parts of the land for profit.
Singh’s charge can be politically damaging for Congress as the trust has had members close to the Gandhi family in the past, including Sheila Kaul, Yashpal Kapoor and Uma Shankar Dixit. In fact, Kaul’s sons and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid are still associated with the trust. Aditi tried to give the issue a political twist too by claiming that it’s ironic that the Congress points fingers at the lack of transparency in the PM Cares fund when there is no transparency in the Kamla Nehru Educational Society. The BJP has picked up on these charges and used them to hit out at the Gandhis with Union Minister Piyush Goyal and leaders Amit Malviya and Shalabh Mani Tripathi putting out tweets. Aditi is now demanding that the EOW investigate and take action on the basis of her complaint.