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New Delhi, August 18, 2006: Minister of State for Urban Employment
and Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja is embroiled in an ironical
controversy. A special investigation by CNN-IBN has found fake job
scamsters in Haryana may have used her. CNN-IBN team has documentary
evidence and has met victims who paid up to Rs. 2 lakh each for
jobs they claim that Selja Kumari urged them into taking up.
Involved in the scam are a local scamster P.S. Sandhu and D.K.
Bansal, the Congress MLA from Ambala Cantonment, which incidentally
is Selja Kumari's Lok Sabha constituency. They set up a fake Public
Sector Undertaking called Agrofed and duped hundreds of youth across
seven states. The duo are under the scanner for setting up a fake
Public Sector Undertaking called Agrofed and duping hundreds of
youth across seven states.
"I feel very sad that such a thing has happened. Lot of innocent
people have been taken for a ride ... that I should have may even
be indirectly have recommended them. It was wrong on my part.,”
said Kumari Selja, Minister of Urban Employment
Sandhu's political connections with the Congress Party leadership
in Haryana ensured that nobody doubted his fake employment letters.
In 2003, he was jailed for posing as a Director of the Sports Authority
of Haryana and issuing fake appointment letters to job seekers.
Today, Sandhu is back in prison, accused of floating a bogus public
sector unit - Agro-Fed.
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Trilochan Singh, an Independent MP has raised the issue of the
scam in The Rajya Sabha based on the CNN-IBN Investigation. In Ambala,
shops have shut down and traders are protesting against MLA D.K
Bansal and The Congress Party.
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