Akali Dal accuses rebel Manpreet Ayali of irregularities

Time of India

4 days ago

Chandigarh:
Shiromani Akali Dal
(SAD) leader Parambans Singh Romana on Wednesday challenged dissident party leader and Dakha legislator Manpreet Singh Ayali to deny the claims that he "got his land excluded from the land pooling scheme", while the adjoining land belonging to poor farmers was notified for acquisition.
Addressing a press conference, Romana said Ayali was "badly compromised" and became "totally silent on the AAP govt's land grabbing scheme whereby it wanted to take forcible possession of 24,000 acres of land in Ludhiana district alone because the govt adjusted him and excluded all land controlled by him from the scheme".
The SAD leader also asked Ayali to disclose what "settlement" he made with the AAP leadership to "secure this reprieve".
Showing documents and Google images, Romana alleged that a chunk of land adjacent to Avanta Enclave owned by the Ayali family and another chunk was left out of the ambit of the land pooling scheme, even as the adjoining land belonging to poor farmers was included in the scheme.
He also alleged that from another chunk of land comprising 20 acres, eight acres belonging to Ayali were left out of the land pooling scheme, even as the remaining 12 acres were notified for acquisition.
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Romana also claimed that the AAP-led govt in Punjab was in possession of documents that proved Ayali's "illegal activities". "The Ayali family developed a colony – Avanta Enclave over 28 acres of land during the course of which it committed several illegalities, including a built-up area of 70% instead of 55% as mandated under law," he said.
The SAD leader said when a scheme was launched to get all illegal colonies that came up before 2018 regularised by paying a nominal fee of Rs 3 crore, Ayali submitted documents to claim that Avanta Greens was constructed in 2015.
Romana showed what he claimed were Google images from 2017, 2018, and 2019 when Avanta Enclave was a barren piece of land and from 2020 when kutcha roads first started being built in the Enclave.
He alleged: "Ayali procured stamps in back date to do agreements with his customers, but this scam was exposed when the vigilance department approached the customers. Now, the AAP govt has details of the entire scam, and CM Bhagwant Mann even referred to this during the Ludhiana West byelections to silence him."
Asking Ayali to prove him wrong, Romana said: "I challenge the leader to show one registry done to sell any one of the 93 plots in Avanta Enclave before 2018."
Romana further claimed: "Details are emerging that Ayali succeeded in getting his land parcels on Hambran road and Kail village excluded from the land pooling scheme. The SAD will release details of the same once the documents are in our possession."
Hitting out at Ayali, Romana said: "The badly compromised people are trying to mislead people by wearing the mask of Panth and are trying to weaken the Panth at the behest of the govt.
It was necessary to unmask them."
Ayali is a part of the five-member committee which has been carrying out an exercise to usher in a revived Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) "on the directions of the Akal Takht".
Ayali, when contacted, denied the allegations, saying that he was even open to a CBI inquiry. "Nearly all of my urban land is coming under the land pooling scheme; 150 acres of my land is coming under the land pooling scheme," Ayali said, denying that any of his land was excluded.
On allegations about a chunk of land adjacent to Avanta Enclave being excluded from the scheme, Ayali said the land being referred to was "reserved to develop commercial sites" in the approved colony and asked "how can that be included" in the land pooling scheme. "We will get this land passed as commercial," said Ayali.
On other alleged irregularities, Ayali said: "They may get a CBI inquiry done. Whatever license I got, I got it after the 2019 byelection.
I contested the byelection against the Congress govt at that time. Would they have left anything to do an inquiry against me? We have been fighting against the govts then and now also."
He said: "Vigilance inquiries were held by the previous Congress govt and now the AAP govt as well, and everything is verified."
On Google images, Ayali said: "Google images have no authenticity as these don't get updated for as long as three years.
Twenty-two departments made visits and submitted reports. Whatever GLADA (Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority) asked, we submitted, and if there is even one document which is against the policy, let it be investigated."
Ayali said he had been vocal against the land pooling policy. "I was the first to speak against the land pooling policy. I participated in a dharna against the policy yesterday, and in Punjab Vidhan Sabha, except me, no one spoke against it."
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