Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was Chief Minister of Haryana when Robert Vadra finalized land deals, has been issued a summon notice by a former judge probing alleged illegal deals in the state when the Congress was in power.

Hooda said today, "This is a politically motivated move. Everyone knows who the main target is. Who appoints a panel to investigate a land deal in small village?" However, he said he will obey the order to appear for questioning on Monday.

Last year, the new BJP government in Haryana asked Justice SN Dhingra to look at whether Vadra and other real estate developers were allotted land at reduced prices to allow them huge profits. In Vadra's land deal, rules were bypassed to allow the land to be developed for commercial use, Ashok Khemka, a top bureaucrat claimed.

A report by the state auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General or CAG that came out last year, appeared to agree with his accusations about the three acres in Gurgaon that was purchased by Vadra's firm in 2008 for seven crores and then sold to real estate mogul DLF just months later for 58 crores.

Khemka had cancelled the deal, but his decision was reversed by Hooda's government.

When the BJP was victorious in the Haryana election in 2014, Chief Minister ML Khattar promised that all controversial land deals including Vadra's would be thoroughly examined.