In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- GVL Narasimha Rao, Natl Spokesperson, BJP; Sunil Alagh, Chairman, S K A Advisors; Dr Ajoy Kumar, Spokesperson, Congress; Kamal Faruqui, Political Analyst; and Ajoy Bose, Senior Journalist -- discuss the issue whether Rahul Gandhi did not know that it was his own Govt that threw spanner at the Amethi food park project.
The issue of mega food park inRahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi again generated heat in the Lok Sabha today with Congress accusing government of resorting to "politics of vendetta" on development issues. There were verbal e xchanges between members of Congressand treasury benches after Leader of the Congress Mallikarjun Kharge referred to the food park scrapped by the Narendra Modi government. Alleging that "politics of vendetta" was being resorted to either by cancelling or not proceeding ahead with projects cleared by the erstwhile UPA regime, he came out names of several such projects including a canal project in Rajasthan named after Indira Gandhi and 1000-bedded National Cancer Institute as part of expansion of AIIMS in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi, Congress Vice President, had last week attacked the government over the issue and also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of practising politics of revenge. Food Processing Minister Harsmirat Kaur yesterday said the food park's promoter company had expressed inability to pursue the project in the absence of natural gas, whose allocation was denied by the previous government in December 2012. In a detailed statement, Kaur had said the project proposed Shaktiman Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd in Amethi was cancelled after the promoter company failed to comply with requisite conditions for approval.
