Bollywood actress and BJP MP Hema Malini's dance academy in Mumbai's Oshiwara was allotted land worth Rs. 70 crore for just Rs. 1.75 lakh an RTI query has revealed. Maharashtra government allotted a 2,000 square metre prime plot to the BJP Lok Sabha MP for Rs. 1.75 lakh at a rate of Rs. 87.50 per square metre, under a revised policy, documents accessed by RTI activist Anil Galgali shows.

Malini has, in the past, refuted allegations of favouritism and land grabbing, saying she had struggled for 20 years to get the plot.

“I am getting 2,000 square metre of land for a dance institute to be built by Natyavihar Kalakendra Charity Trust (headed by her). I will have to develop a garden (on a piece of land which is not part of the academy) and give it to the BMC,” she had earlier said.