The Ram Temple Trust’s Secretary Champat Rai had mentioned the allegations weren’t worthy of remark.
A land deal that has evoked allegations of a rip-off was carried out in a clear method and adopted a sure protocol, the Ayodhya temple Trust mentioned Monday. Two opposition events of Uttar Pradesh has Sunday accused it of pulling off a bootleg transaction within the temple city.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief Champat Rai, Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra defended the transaction Monday, explaining it in a collection of tweets.
“The Trust carried out all transactions in a transparent manner and all payments were sent directly to bank accounts as part of a fixed protocol for all such acquisitions,” Mr Rai mentioned in his tweets.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in separate press conferences, had claimed that two actual property sellers had allegedly bought a property from a person for Rs 2 crore and bought it — inside minutes — to the Trust for Rs 18.5 crore.
In a late-night assertion issued on Twitter on Monday, Mr Rai had mentioned that the allegations have been “influenced by politics and misguided”. The allegations have been vital because the Ram temple in Ayodhya is an emotive problem in Uttar Pradesh, the place elections are due subsequent yr.
“Temples along the Ram Mandir complex’s retaining wall are being acquired by the Trust. It has decided that any person or institution being displaced by this acquisition will be rehabilitated,” Mr Rai tweeted.
“The 12,080 square metre land (of the said deal) has been purchased by the Trust for this purpose,” he wrote, saying it was prime property and positioned on a street near the Ayodhya Railway Station.
The current sellers of the land — the property sellers — have had earlier agreements with the house owners in 2011, 2017, and 2019, in line with Mr Rai.
Enquiries by the Trust revealed that the property sellers have been providing it at Rs 1,423 per sq. foot, a lot lower than the market charge.
“Following an agreement on the price, the sellers were asked to fullfil any earlier obligations they had on the land,” he wrote.
In Sunday’s assertion, he had underlined that the Uttar Pradesh authorities, too, had been buying land for growth work, and so property costs shot up.
