Still the Wild East

K P Singh of DLF has written his memoirs (with the help of two journalists). An instructive chapter deals with how Bansi Lal, thrice chief minister of Haryana, carried on a vendetta against DLF — changing rules, cancelling licences, conducting raids, sending in bulldozers, ordering arrests. It is an extraordinary tale of how a powerful state politician could do anything when he set out to destroy a business; neither laws, rules, officials nor fellow-politicians could stand in his way.

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