Ahmedabad Times

As “probably the most essential reality,” Malviya claimed that “the land holdings of the Chief Minister and his rapid household haven’t elevated since he assumed workplace as Chief Minister.”

Official information contradict this declare.

What the BJP claims vs what the details replicate.

As reported by The Indian SpecificMohan Yadav’s daughter-in-law Shalini bought 12 plots measuring 10.35 acresclose to the junction of the upgraded Ujjain-Badnagar and Ujjain-Indore highways in Ujjain’s Gangedi, for Rs 1.03 crore in June-July 2025.

Shri Siddhivinayak Devcons Pvt Ltd, the place Mohan Yadav and spouse Seema maintain 47.3 p.c and 25.5 p.c respectively, additionally bought no less than three plots measuring a complete of two.6 acres for Rs 1.43 crore in Ujjain’s Savarakhedi and Kasba Ujjain between December 2024 and March 2025.

Shri Siddhivinayak Devcons Pvt Ltd additionally bought no less than 12 acres to Mohan Yadav’s first cousin Nilesh for Rs 6.01 crore in Ujjain’s Dhediya in September 2024. Nilesh is creating a housing mission underneath the Sawariya model on this land.

Malviya additional wrote that the Ujjain Grasp Plan and particulars of the town’s future infrastructure improvement had been within the public area since Might 2023, months earlier than Yadav turned Chief Minister in December that yr.

“If the roadmap for roads, city growth and infrastructure tasks was publicly recognized, the place is the query of any insider benefit accruing to the Chief Minister or anybody else after he took workplace?” he argued.

Of the 168 acres bought, round 111 acres are positioned alongside freeway and street tasks introduced by the Yadav authorities. Key land parcels are concentrated in Gangedi, Unhel, Jaiwantpur and Chandesara villages.

Data present that CM’s son Vaibhav Yadav and Mangalmurti Infra bought no less than 30 acres for Rs 9.46 crore in Sawarakhedi, the place farmland was opened up for improvement in Ujjain Grasp Plan 2035, in March-April 2023 – weeks earlier than the doc was made public in Might 2023. The household continued buying land in these zones within the months that adopted.

The investigation additionally reported that whereas some infrastructure tasks have been already into account, Mohan Yadav introduced a slew of street tasks after turning into Chief Minister. Practically two-thirds of the 168 acres bought by the household in Ujjain after Yadav turned the chief minister are re-located close to these new street hyperlinks and highways.

Earlier this week, state BJP chief Khandelwal termed the Congress expenses “fully baseless, factually incorrect and politically motivated”. He stated that within the affidavit filed by Yadav for the 2023 Meeting elections declared all land holding in his title and that of his spouse, which has not elevated since. He additional acknowledged that the 16 acres of land owned by Yadav’s son Vaibhav Yadav earlier than 2023 had additionally not elevated after Yadav turned Chief Minister.

On Shri Siddhivinayak Devcons Pvt Ltd the place Yadav and spouse Seema personal 73 per cent stake, Khandelwal stated the agency owned round 68 acres through the 2023 Meeting elections and that its holdings had since diminished to roughly 65 acres. He claimed that Mohan Yadav had no reference to the corporate’s present actions since he had resigned as a director of the corporate in 2017.

Khandelwal added that relations of the Chief Minister conduct their companies and monetary actions independently and that linking their non-public transactions or companies to Yadav was “factually incorrect”.

Madhya Pradesh PWD Minister Rakesh Singh, nonetheless, stated that he had “no objection” to the Congress demand for an investigation. “If somebody raises a name for an investigation, then there needs to be one. There isn’t any objection to that. …I feel that if there are properties which have been gathered illegally, then that also needs to come ahead,” he stated.

On June 23, The Indian Specific reported that Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and his household acquired, both straight or via one among their actual property corporations, no less than 85 acres of land in Ujjain between 2021 and 2023when Yadav served as schooling minister. The report additional acknowledged that they bought no less than 168 extra acres between 2024 and 2025 after Yadav turned chief minister.

The Indian Specific additionally discovered that the Yadav household owned no less than one other 82 acres in Ujjaineither as longstanding holdings or properties whose acquisition dates couldn’t be decided.

Even assuming the household’s 82 acres of longstanding or undated holdings have been already owned by 2020, their land holding doubled to 167 acres throughout 2021-2023 after Yadav turned a minister. This additional doubled to 335 acres throughout 2024-2025 after Yadav turned the chief minister.

The Indian Specific report stated that CM Yadav and spouse Seema owned 17 and 11 acres, respectively, of their title, which was declared in Yadav’s election affidavit in 2023. They co-own no less than one other 27.5 acres via Shri Siddhivinayak Devcons Pvt Ltd, an organization the place they maintain 73% stake.

The Indian Specific additionally reported that weeks earlier than Ujjain grasp Plan 2023 was launched in Might 2023, the Yadav household bought no less than 30 acres in Sawarakhedi in March-April 2023. Of the 168 acres bought in 2024-25, 111 acres are near new street hyperlinks and highways, and 33 acres are in areas opened up for residential or industrial use within the new grasp plan.

Detailed queries despatched by The Indian Specific to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and his workplace on April 13 stay unanswered.