Congress rewarded property dealer's brother after he facilitated Robert Vadra's land deals: report
New Delhi, Oct 19: The Congress party during the Haryana assembly elections in 2009 gave ticket to the brother of a property dealer who had facilitated land deals for Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra in
Though Nagar lost the 2009 elections, he has spent lakhs of rupees on posters and billboards put all over his constituency projecting himself as a leader.
His personal website strives hard to showcase his political credentials.
It points out that his uncle Gajaraj Bahudar served as a minister in Haryana between 1977 and 1982.
It lists his own previously held positions: District President, Kissan Khet Mazdoor Congress and General Secretary, Youth Congress. And it describes him as "one of the most dedicated propagandist of Congress Party ideologies."
However, since controversy erupted over Vadra's land deals, Nagar has been keeping a low-profile. He did not answer calls made on his cellphone by Times of India.
At Nagar's residence in Sector 17 of Faridabad, his supporters politely turn visiting journalists away.
Nagar is the second Congress leader in Haryana whose name has surfaced in Vadra's land deals.
Last week, in a press conference, leader of opposition in Haryana, Om Prakash Chautala, had alleged that Aftab Ahmed, the Congress MLA from Nuh constituency in Mewat district, won a ticket in 2009 in return for selling land to Real Earth Estate Pvt Ltd, a companies in which Vadra is a director.