Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 3: JKNPP Chairman Harsh Dev Singh has appealed 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 six years. He also accused the erstwhile BJP Government of having deliberately abolished the Accountability Commission only to protect its corrupt leaders.
Addressing a press conference, here today, Singh said that several BJP Ministers were accused of promoting transfer industry in the State, allotment of works without tenders and illegal appointments made in Govt departments on monetary and extraneous considerations. Moreover, he added, several Ministers and MLAs had encroached huge State and Forest lands whose adverse reports had been submitted even by the investigating agencies against them.
Further, holding the former ministers and Ex-MLAs squarely responsible for most of the irregular practices in the departments of R&B, PHE, PDD, H&ME and RDD in particular, Singh said that unscrupulous leaders often used their influence and exerted undue pressure on officers to confer undue benefits upon their favourites.
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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