UPA’s Land Law defective, posed threat to India’s security, says FM Arun Jaitley

Launching a scathing attack on the Congress, Finance Minister Arun Jaitleyon Thursday said the previous UPA regime’s land law has had “disastrous impact” on India’s national security as Pakistan could get information on criticaldefence projects coming up here.

Terming UPA government’s land law as “a defective piece of legislation”, he said though the Congress-led government had put defence and security as urgent matters, it had “forgotten to put such projects in the exempted list.” This, he said, would have revealed the kind of defence or security projects being put up, where are they being put up and why.

“Signatures of 70 per cent of the villagers (whose land is being acquired) would be needed as their consent, as also the social impact assessment of installing the project. So, the information will be revealed and it will also reach Pakistan,” Jaitley said while intervening in Rajya Sabha on the debate on Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address.