Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 17: Making a vociferous appeal to the Lt Governor to constitute a Commission of Inquiry (COI) against the corrupt MLAs and Ministers who have accumulated huge wealth and disproportionate assets in the last seven years, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the Government for having grossly failed to take action against the blemished politicians of BJP and PDP who had looted public exchequer, encroached State lands and raised mammoth movable and immovable properties by abusing their position and authority.
While addressing a press conference, he said reminded that even erstwhile Governor SP Malik had referred to several scams in the J&K State in insurance contracts, power projects, J&K Bank besides large scale illegitimate back door appointments but the bigwigs continued to enjoy immunity in view of their political clout with no action whatsoever initiated against the corrupt politicians.
“Even the Accountability Commission (AC) was abolished by the BJP Govt which alone was the forum for investigating the frauds and scams of politicians,” he said and added that this was deliberately done to protect the corrupt leaders of the BJP-PDP rule.
Describing the BJP Govt’s tall slogans of providing transparent, accountable and corruption free Governance to the people a hoax, Harsh Dev Singh said that all such rants were made to enchant the masses for political gains. He said that several Ex-BJP Ministers and MLAs had been reported to have created huge assets, taken loan from J&K Bank amounting to several crores and got it declared NPA besides having defied norms and procedures and violated Defence Acts besides other violations in constructing un-authorized structures and palatial bungalows.
Accusing several Ex-Ministers and MLAs of running illegal pollution creating units including stone crushers, brick kilns, hot mix plants etc in violation of the directions of High Court and Supreme Court and NGT, he regretted that authorities concerned had turned a blind eye to the same in view of the pressure of these powerful politicians running the unauthorized units.
Urging the Lt Governor to appoint ‘Lok Ayukt’ in conformity with the tall slogans of the Govt to probe into the involvement of Ex-MLAs and Ex-Ministers of erstwhile alliance in corrupt deeds, large scale bunglings and other acts of omission and commission, Harsh Dev Singh said that until noose was tightened around corrupt politicians, good and clean Governance would remain a distant dream.
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