Updated: Di, 07 Oct 2025 09:15 am (IST) in Lucknow, caught the municipal corporation Sahara City, which ended the 30 -year -old ownership of Sahara Group. This action was done for violating lease conditions. Employees were excluded and cattle were transferred. Now there is a possibility of becoming a memorial from Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as well as ministers’ homes, can also be built. Jagran Correspondent, Lucknow. After a long practice and legal battle, the municipal corporation eventually took possession of the Sahara city in Gomtinagar. The municipal corporation officials sat on Monday with the help of police locks on all the gates of Sahara City and excluded the employees. Remove advertisement, read only the news, now the municipal employees in Sahara City are stationed, with the consent of which anyone will be admitted. Sahara was occupied here for almost thirty years. Managing Director of Sahara India, late. Subrata Rai’s wife Swapna Rai and other family members are allegedly moved to Mumbai. In 1995, the municipal corporation gave 173 hectares of land to Sahara India for residential provision, but another 150 crore of rental deed was deposited or residential schemes were concluded under the contract of the company. The municipal corporation took the land in its possession while acting in Sahara City for renting inkle. In addition to the corporate office in Sahara City, guest houses and many other temporary constructions were done in Sahara City, bypassing the lease. When distinguishing guests came from India and abroad, Sahara remained in the city itself. In a way, the entire Sahara India Company ran from here, as Sahara’s managing director Subrata Rai met people here. The municipal corporation left the Kanha Upavan in Sarojninagar, along with its locks at the Gates of Sahara City, as well as its locks. Zonal officers of the municipal corporation Four Sanjay Yadav, property in -charge Rameshwar and Tehsildar Arvind Pandey, along with the police force, reached Sahara City around 5pm and closed the gate. There are a total of four gates in Sahara City, on which police have already been deployed. Employees protested, but the municipal officials excluded them. Employees said that these people had not received salary for months and that all people had fled here. Now what will happen to us. After possession of the municipal corporation, it is believed that preparations to set up a memorial from former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Atal Vihari Vajpayee in Sahara City will be strengthened. Apart from the Atal Memorial, there is talk of building a ministerial home here. Since Sahara City is now fully occupied by the municipal corporation, it can be decided soon.
173 hectares of Sahara City’s land now from Lucknow Municipal Corporation, Subrata Rai’s family has now moved here – Lucknow Nagar Nigam takes in possession of Sahara City
