BJP MP Sanjay Kakde threatens BJP MLA Medha Kulkarni
Pune – The ghost of rehabilitation of affected people from Kopre village has come to haunt BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kakde.
As per report published in ‘Sarkarnama’ , Kakde reportedly threatened BJP MLA Medha Kulkarni from Kothrud after she took side of some of the affected persons who are protesting against Kakde demanding their rehabilitation.
Kulkarni has recorded the threat call and sent it to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. In the call Kakde allegedly abused Kulkarni and threatened of dire consequences.
The protesters are demanding full rehabilitation of displaced villagers of New Kopare, whose lands were acquired by the National Defence Academy (NDA) for expansion in 1967. They were supposed to be rehabilitated in a building project led by Kakade Group in Warje-Malwadi.
According to the protesters, of the 401 families of the New Kopre village that were displaced after the village lost the land to NDA in 1967, 54 are yet to get alternative accommodation. The families were reportedly promised homes in Kakade City, a project by the Kakade Constructions owned by Sanjay Kakade, who is now a BJP MP. Kumar Saptrashi, president of Yukrand, who is spearheading the agitation, said the 15 families that are now part of the protest were initially in the list of beneficiaries that were to get the houses.
Kakade, however, denied that he owed rehabilitation of the 15 families.
“I have rehabilitated 358 families who were displaced by the project. If these families were deserving families, I would not have refused to rehabilitate them. If these people are rightful beneficiaries they should show the 7/12 extract documents of the lands they lost. Also, if the District Collector decrees that these people should get a home, I would have no problem providing them homes,” Kakade had told the Indian Express.
