NDTV: Lucknow: Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
Information
sought under the RTI Act about the allotment of land to the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) for it's new headquarters at 6, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg in New
Delhi has been denied by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Development,
an activist said on Tuesday.
Lucknow based
activist Nutan Thakur had in February this year sought a copy of the file
related to the land allotment, to which the ministry's CPIO Rajanish Kumar Jha
said that the information sought was by third party and has not provided any
stake in the property, hence it cannot be provided.
The activist,
in a statement to the media, however claims that allotment of government land
was not third party information and should have been provided.
The 70-room
new office space, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this
year was a modern, multi-storeyed building with three blocks, spread over a
sprawling two acres equipped with latest state-of-the-art gadgets.