NEW DELHI — Narendra Modi, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate, in an interview to a private channel, has said that if his party comes to power, there will be no vengeful action against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Vadra has been accused of conducting sham land deals in Haryana and Rajasthan and pocketing a large amount of money in illegal gains. “The main focus of the BJP-led government will be to fulfill promises it has made to people and it“ll work with a positive attitude. It will not be vindictive toward anyone. I have paid the price for the past 12 years due to others' vindictiveness. I will not follow that,” Modi told TV9 in an interview. Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka in mid-2013 alleged that Vadra “falsified documents” for 3.53 acres of land in Gurgaon, Haryana and took a large premium on a commercial colony license. In his “voluminous reply” submitted to Haryana government's three-member inquiry committee set up in October 2013 to look into the deal, Khemka is understood to have alleged that Vadra executed a series of “sham transactions” for it. Vadra was later accused of inking illegal land deals in Rajasthan. He was accused of buying acres of land from farmers for as low as Rs 20,000 an acre. The Congress denied the charges. Modi, however, has often taken potshots at Vadra during his election rallies. At a rally in Ghaziabad earlier this month, Modi said that he wanted to ask Rahul Gandhi if his brother-in-law would guard the country.
