Pratibha Patil, President of India and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces is building a palatial home for herself on a whopping 261,000 sq ft of land in Khadki Cantonment in Pune (out of which the bungalow occupies about 4,500 sq ft). The land belongs to the defence. It will now have a fortified home, the construction of which is nearing completion.
The president is eligible for only 2,000 sq ft bungalow in any part of the country if he/she wants the government to hire a home for him/her, after retirement. Otherwise, he/she is entitled to a government-owned Class V bungalow (around 4,500 sq ft) if it is available. He/she is not eligible to build a home on government land. Some former defence personnel from Pune who are campaigning against this illegality are taking strong objections to the fact that Ms Patil is constructing her house on government land, when hundreds of jawans and officers are facing official accommodation crisis.
This revelation under the Right to Information (RTI) Act was procured by Col Suresh Patil (retd) and founder of Justice for Jawans (JFJ), RTI activist Anup Awasthi and Indian Ex-servicemen Movement (IESM) who are campaigning against Ms Patil’s ‘snatching’ away land meant for soldiers and officers.
Earlier Rajendra Shekhawat, the MLA son of President Pratibha Patil from Amravati, courted controversy on February 15 when local police seized unaccounted cash of Rs.1 crore from a car headed for his home, But he is still MLA only
An RTI activist from Pune, Col Suresh Patil (retd) remarked, “Dr Rajendra Prasad donated his land to Vinoba Bhave and here we have Pratibhatai Patil taking away the land for of her own men
UPA2 will go down in history as most disgraceful govt & pratiba 1st corrupt president of India not as 1st lady President (Kudos to Congress and UPA)
Why these news never surfaced in regular/popular media. Iwas trying to get more info on this and googled for it many times but its really hard to find much about this.
ReplyDeleteThank you for proactively work against corrupt, even if she is President.