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The Congress on Monday dragged in Hemant Singh of Dholpur, the estranged husband of Vasundhara Raje, into its campaign against the Rajasthan chief minister and her alleged business links to controversial former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. The BJP dismissed the Congress's bid as "stooping to a new low" to tar a "popular CM's public image".
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh charged that Hemant had admitted before a court that the Dholpur City Palace was a Rajasthan government property, adding that several revenue department documents between 1954 and 2010 establish this irrefutably.
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In spite of this, Jairam charged, the palace was not given to the government, and Raje and Lalit Modi's company, Niyant Heritage Hotels, turned it into a "high-end luxury hotel", investing Rs 100 crore into it. As per Jairam's claim, this happened post-2009 when the Congress ruled in both the state and the Centre.
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Objecting to this, Rajasthan BJP chief Ashok Parnami said Hemant had filed a wrong affidavit and that he had signed the "handover-takeover" papers in court through which Dholpur City Palace was transferred to him as sole successor of the royal family in 1956.
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"Hemant Singh furnished a wrong affidavit in the court in 2010 claiming that the property belonged to the state. Why he did so, only he can say," said Parnami. "Unke sambandh theek nahi hain, aur woh bayaan badal rahe hain, toh woh jaane (their - Raje-Hemant - relations aren't good, and if he has changed his statement, he should know better)," said Parnami. Raje and her husband had separated within two years of their marriage.
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