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Congress refuses to comment on allegations against PM aide

      The Congress Party on Sunday refused to comment on reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s advisor T.K.A. Nair was involved in caught in a land row in Bangalore . Congress party spokesperson Rashid Alvi said: “I don’t know the details. I would comment on it after knowing the details.” Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party (SP) tried to play down the issue as the land had been returned. “It has been given back. I think we shouldn’t put any blame on Nair. He is very respectable advisor to the Prime Minister. I think he should not have involved himself in this kind of favouritism,” SP spokesperson Shahid Siddiqui added. ‘The Hindu’ newspaper on Sunday reported that state-run defence undertaking, the Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), made at least two irregular allotments of housing sites to Nair’s niece Preethy Prabha and to a friend Uma Devi Nambiar in December 2008 at throwaway prices in Bangalore. The largesse was made in violation of rules when complaints by a whistle-blower about the role of BEML Chairman and Managing Director V. R. S. Natarajan in the controversial all-terrain Tatra truck deal -made in 2005 - were pending with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the Defence Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office.

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