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<b>Rahul Gandhi's firm changes its website</b>
By: A Mid Day Correspondent
May 28, 2004

Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi’s firm BackOps Engineering, on which Mid Day ran a report yesterday, changed its website and removed a page listing a series of projects it claimed to have worked on.

A friend of Rahul Gandhi who refused to be named clarified that those projects, among them Belapur railway station and the Osho commune in Pune, are <b>being executed by a firm called Rajani Associates (with whom Gandhi’s firm shares its office in Colaba). </b>

<b>BackOps did provide “designing and drafting services” for some projects to Rajani Associates, he said, but not the ones named in the report</b>. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Of the projects listed by Mid Day, the friend said, “in no way whatsoever was BackOps Engineering involved”.

<b>“We have been associated with BackOps only in the last one year</b>, but we have been working on most of these projects for much longer than that,” said Chaitanya Rajani, one of the partners in Rajani Associates.

<b>However, this is disputed by BackOps’s own website which listed all the projects named in the report, as representative of their work</b>. <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Though the page was removed after Mid Day’s report, a printout was taken by us and has been reproduced on page 6.

The page lists all the projects Mid Day reported the firm worked on. BackOps’s website (www.back-ops.com) continues to say that the firm provides “basic civil engineering work” and states its experience as including “a large volume of work in concrete, structural steel, pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete”.