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There is speculation in the Congress about who will
succeed Chavan. The names of Union Ministers Prithviraj
Chavan, Mukul Wasnik and Gurudas Kamat are doing the rounds.
While Chavan is Maratha from Western Maharashtra,
Wasnik is a dalit leader from Vidarbha and Kamat from Mumbai.
The talk in Congress circles is that the leadership is
weighing the pros and cons of Chavan's successor.
Chavan was summoned last night after reports emerged
that three of his relatives--mother in law, sister in law and
brother in law--were allotted flats in Adarsh Group Housing
Society in upscale Colaba in south Mumbai.
Notwithstanding his press conference in Mumbai
Friday where he put up a strong defence on the issue and
made a statement that his relatives have surrendered the flat,
the party high command was not not impressed.
Highly-placed sources had indicated that Chavan's
continuance has become untenable in the wake of the scam and
he was being summoned to give him a feel of how the party
viewed the issue.
Chavan said he has placed before Gandhi all the facts
relating to the housing society and that he had welcomed the
CBI inquiry into it. "Whatever the facts (that come out of
the probe) should be made public," he said.
He maintained that the land on which the housing
society had come up belonged to the state government and
suggested that there were other chief ministers who were
involved in decisions taken on the project.
Defence Minister A K Antony, who is also in charge of
the Congress affairs in Maharashtra, and Gandhi's Political
Secretary Ahmed Patel were also present when Chavan met
Gandhi.
Gandhi was said to have been deeply upset over the
entire affair including the fact that three of the chief
minister's relatives were allotted flats in the Adarsh Group
Housing Society meant for the families of Kargil war victims.
Accompanied by his wife Amita, Chavan earlier met
Congress President's Political Secretary Ahmed Patel when the
High Command's stand on the issue was understood to have been
made clear to Chavan.
Gandhi also held consultations in the morning with
with senior party leaders in which Environment Minister
Jairam Ramesh was present besides Patel, AICC General
Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi and Union Minister Prithviraj
Chavan, who also hails from Maharashtra.
Chavan had been involved in clearing papers for the
upscale high-rise Adarsh building project in his previous
capacity as the Revenue minister. PTI SKU
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There is speculation in the Congress about who will
succeed Chavan. The names of Union Ministers Prithviraj
Chavan, Mukul Wasnik and Gurudas Kamat are doing the rounds.
While Chavan is Maratha from Western Maharashtra,
Wasnik is a dalit leader from Vidarbha and Kamat from Mumbai.
The talk in Congress circles is that the leadership is
weighing the pros and cons of Chavan's successor.
Chavan was summoned last night after reports emerged
that three of his relatives--mother in law, sister in law and
brother in law--were allotted flats in Adarsh Group Housing
Society in upscale Colaba in south Mumbai.
Notwithstanding his press conference in Mumbai
Friday where he put up a strong defence on the issue and
made a statement that his relatives have surrendered the flat,
the party high command was not not impressed.
Highly-placed sources had indicated that Chavan's
continuance has become untenable in the wake of the scam and
he was being summoned to give him a feel of how the party
viewed the issue.
Chavan said he has placed before Gandhi all the facts
relating to the housing society and that he had welcomed the
CBI inquiry into it. "Whatever the facts (that come out of
the probe) should be made public," he said.
He maintained that the land on which the housing
society had come up belonged to the state government and
suggested that there were other chief ministers who were
involved in decisions taken on the project.
Defence Minister A K Antony, who is also in charge of
the Congress affairs in Maharashtra, and Gandhi's Political
Secretary Ahmed Patel were also present when Chavan met
Gandhi.
Gandhi was said to have been deeply upset over the
entire affair including the fact that three of the chief
minister's relatives were allotted flats in the Adarsh Group
Housing Society meant for the families of Kargil war victims.
Accompanied by his wife Amita, Chavan earlier met
Congress President's Political Secretary Ahmed Patel when the
High Command's stand on the issue was understood to have been
made clear to Chavan.
Gandhi also held consultations in the morning with
with senior party leaders in which Environment Minister
Jairam Ramesh was present besides Patel, AICC General
Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi and Union Minister Prithviraj
Chavan, who also hails from Maharashtra.
Chavan had been involved in clearing papers for the
upscale high-rise Adarsh building project in his previous
capacity as the Revenue minister. PTI SKU
PBL
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