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WHAT WAS supposed to be a regular meeting of the Assagao gram sabha turned into media fodder when panch member Ajit Sawant inadvertently revealed that the bungalow in which the construction of a swimming pool was granted - and being protested by villagers - belonged to Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The local and national media pounced on the story and Sawant’s comment has been recorded in newsprint. Now in the eye of the storm, Ajit Sawant - not surprisingly - deines ever having said the bungalow belonged to Hooda.
“The reports are baseless. I did not mention anybody’s name with regard to the bungalow,” claims Sawant. He defiantly asks anyone to prove he said it: “You can check the minute book of the gram sabha meeting. Nothing has been mentioned about me saying anything about the bungalow.” Considering the panchas-secretary nexus in every village panchayat, it does not come as any real surprise that the minutes of the meeting recorded by Assagao Village Panchayat (VP) secretary Subhash Kambli do not mention a debate over swimming pools in the village on that particular day, leave alone Hooda. This has raised doubts over the credibility of the secretary, who is supposed to note the proceedings of meetings in detail.
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