Robert Vadra at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for the second consecutive day after being summoned in the Gurugram land case, in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Ritik Jain
Robert Vadra, husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, was questioned for the second consecutive day on Wednesday on the money laundering charges in the 2008 Haryana land deal.
Speaking to reporters, businessman Vadra alleged that he is being targeted because he is a part of the Gandhi family and that he would not have faced music had he been a BJP member.
Vadra, 56, said that he is being asked the same questions again and again in the Haryana land deal which, according to him, was closed by the State government in the past.
Land deal case
As per the case made out, Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, in which Vadra was a director earlier, had purchased 3.5 acres of land in Shikohpur area of Gurugram from Onkareshwar Properties for ₹7.5 crore way back in February 2008.
Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd sold this piece of land to realty major DLF for ₹58 crore in September 2012.
At that time, Congress Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power in Haryana.
Vadra, however, said that “I am part of the Gandhi family, who always fights for the people. Obviously, the BJP has to go for (target) the Gandhi family and me. They have also charge-sheeted my family — my mother-in-law Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.”
He reached the ED office around 11 am accompanied by his wife Priyanka Gandhi for the questioning at the ED headquarters. Later, he went home for lunch around 1:10 pm and returned for the questioning.
Vadra reiterated that he would emerge stronger from the heat generated due to cases, and said that he and his family are one unit and such instances only strengthen his relationship with his wife.
“I feel that people don’t believe in the agencies anymore because everyone in the country has realised that the ED and other agencies are being misused to put pressure on those who expose the government’s wrongdoings. The government is trying to create a divide between Hindus and Muslims. All of this is done to distract from the real issues,” Vadra alleged.
“I don’t understand what this is about and asking me the same kind of questions. I have answered all these questions in 2019. The case pertains to 2008 and why this delay of 17 years,” he said.
On Tuesday , post hours of grilling, he stated that he had submitted 23,000 documents to the agency in 2019, too, calling the summons “politically motivated.”
Published on April 16, 2025
