Months after former cricketer and Lok Sabha MP Yusuf Pathan broke away from the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress, the Gujarat government has proposed to “gift” him 500 square metres of a long-disputed municipal plot in Vadodara and offer the remaining portion at a concessional rate, PTI reported.
The proposal, submitted by the Vadodara municipal commissioner, will be placed before the standing committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled civic body for final approval on Friday.
The proposal came less than two months after Pathan withdrew his petition from the Gujarat High Court concerning the disputed land, the Deccan Herald reported.
Pathan had sought allotment of the 978-square-metre plot of land at market price in 2012, citing security concerns because of its proximity to his family home in Vadodara’s Tandalja locality. The Gujarat government rejected the proposal in 2014, but Pathan continued to occupy the plot. He said he was not informed of the rejection until he received an eviction notice in 2024, two days after his election to the Lok Sabha from West Bengal’s Baharampur constituency on a TMC ticket.
In 2025, the Gujarat High Court dismissed his petition concerning the land and described him as an “encroacher”, Deccan Herald reported. A division bench of the court subsequently refused to grant him relief…
