00:00Okay, let's turn to another of our special reports.
00:03Months after he dumped the Trinamul Congress,
00:06switched over to the NDA camp effectively,
00:09Yusuf Pathan, the cricketer turned politician, MP,
00:12has been given a plot of land finally by the Gujarat government
00:17that was at the center of a legal dispute for 14 years.
00:21Till the time Yusuf Pathan was with the TMC,
00:24he was being denied the plot.
00:26Now, he switched sides and he's got a plot, a multi-crore one.
00:32Take a look.
00:36Four months after cricketer turned politician Yusuf Pathan left the TMC
00:41to join the Nationalist Citizens Party of India,
00:44the move seems to have paid off for the Lok Sabha MP.
00:49Pathan looks set to get legal possession of a plot of government land
00:52allegedly encroached by him in Vadodara.
00:56The Gujarat government has granted approval for the allotment
00:59of the 978 square meter disputed plot next to his bungalow,
01:04which was earlier valued at 20.53 crore rupees.
01:08The Vadodara Municipal Corporation will take a final decision on Friday.
01:26The Municipal Corporation will be compensated for the loss of land.
01:48The land dispute dates back to 2012 when Yusuf Pathan wrote to the Municipal Commissioner
01:54seeking allotment of the 978 square meter plot located next to his bungalow.
02:00A proposal to lease the plot for 99 years without a public auction was initiated.
02:05In 2014, the state government refused approval for allotment without auction.
02:11In 2024, the Municipal Corporation ordered removal of the alleged encroachment.
02:16Yusuf Pathan challenged the Municipal Corporation's decision in the High Court.
02:20On August 21, 2025, the Gujarat High Court dismissed his petition.
02:26Yusuf Pathan then filed an appeal before a division bench of the High Court.
02:30On June 8, 2026, the High Court questioned how Pathan obtained possession of government land
02:36without any allotment.
02:38Pathan withdrew his appeal on August 31st this year after switching parties.
02:44What has been changed and why the Gujarat government is giving this land in a gift
02:49to Yusuf Pathan, though it will be 50% but still it will be a gift from the Gujarat government
02:54to Yusuf Pathan.
02:55These questions will be answered on Friday when the Standing Committee of Hordhra Municipal Corporation
03:03will meet and they will give the final NOD to this allotment.
03:09This video is Saj Alam.
03:10This is Vijay Doshi for India Today.
