Vadra’s fortune is simple to explain. In 2004, when the Congress party and its allies swept to power, Vadra was running a business of exporting inexpensive costume jewellery. By 2007, he had ventured into real estate and registered a firm called Sky Light Hospitality with just Rs 1 lakh as paid-up capital. The company bought 3.5 acres of agricultural land near a highway in Gurgaon for Rs 7.5 crore. The land could only be used for agricultural purposes, after all. However, a couple of months later, Vadra applied to the Congress-ruled Haryana government to permit him to convert the agricultural
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