Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released documents claiming that ‘ghost’ companies had been floated by family members of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and her close confidant Satish Chandra Mishra to park scam money collected through illegal means during the past four and a half years.
The party leaders claimed that they have information about 300 such ghost companies of the relatives of the BSP leaders and their family members.
Releasing the documents, BJP national secretary Kirit Somaiya and UP President Surya Pratap Sahi demanded that the Centre thoroughly investigate the matter within a fortnight. The party will also release a ‘black paper’ on the scams and illegal companies of the BSP leaders and their families in three weeks’ time.
Addressing a press conference here, Mr Somaiya claimed that UP Advisory Council chairman and BSP general Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra’s family member had floated at least 300 ghost companies to park the illegal money.
Interestingly, Kapil Mishra, the 20-year-old son of Satish Chandra Mishra, resigned from all these companies on November 30, 2011 after they received information about the BJP’s move to disclose their wrong-doings.
“Mayawati’s brother Anand Kumar and Kapil Mishra were the partners in Dia Realtors Private Ltd which later alloted shares of the company to Sankalp Advisory Services Private Ltd, whose directors are the wife and four daughters of Satish Chandra Mishra,” he claimed while producing the documents.
Mr Somaiya also threatened to quit politics if the documents disclosed by him proved to be fake or forged.
Somaiya, claiming that the scam could be the biggest ever company fraud in the history of the country, said that major kick-backs received during the Bahujan Samaj Party regime have been parked in these 300 companies. The major portion of the money came from the land scam in Noida and Greater Noida.
“Interestingly, a company of Anand Kumar which was started with a share of Rs one lakh in 2008, was sold at a price of Rs 153 crore two years later,” he alleged. “We never could imagine the involvement of Satish Mishra’s family member in the scam but his 20-year-old son is the director in most of the companies along with Anand Kumar,” he further added.
The BJP National Secretary said the registered address of Dia Realtors Private Ltd is also fake as no company on this name exists at 219, Bake House, Nagindas Master Road, Fort Mumbai.
Another BSP leader Arun Kumar Dwivedi, who is the party candidate for the Mayor elections from Lucknow, is also one of the beneficiaries of shares allotted by Sankalp Advisory Services Private Ltd along with the other family members of Mr Mishra.
He also warned UP Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh not to get involved in political affairs and not give statements on behalf of the CM.
Meanwhile, UP BJP president Surya Pratap Sahi has demanded that the Centre order a high-level probe in to this scam otherwise the BJP will take the matter to the peoples’ court.
“The dilly-dallying attitude of the Congress government proves that they are trying to make a political deal with the BSP in the coming assembly elections,” he stated. (PTI)