Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: Reminding PM Modi of his November 2016 directive calling upon the BJP Ministers, MPs and MLAs for submission of their bank accounts numbers to Amit Shah as a measure of accountability and transparency, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP and former Minister today said that people of the country wanted to know as to what action had been initiated in pursuance of the said disclosures made by BJP leaders with regard to their assets.
While addressing a press conference, here today, he said that in case there was any seriousness in the PM’s directive, the BJP needed to come out with the names of BJP leaders charge-sheeted for dis-proportionate assets or money laundering after such disclosures.
Describing PM Modi’s directive as an eye wash, Singh said that even J&K had several BJP Ministers MPs and MLAs who were accused of real estate scams, disproportionate assets and money laundering with the Central and State unit of BJP failing to give any convincing clarification despite public outrage. He said that several BJP Ministers and a BJP MP are reported to have created huge assets, taken loan from J&K Bank amounting to Rs 30 crore and got it declared NPA besides having defied norms and procedures and violated the defence acts while constructing un-authorized structures.
He said that even during demonetization a Minster’s vehicle was widely reported to have been apprehended while carrying huge illegal cash for conversion into new currency notes. “Similarly another Minister’s spouse was reported to have been video-graphed while converting dirty cash into gold and still another Minister accused of having taken several crores as bribe for granting permission for construction of private apartments in an environmentally fragile area of Jammu. In the same way, a BJP MLA had been accused of raising huge moveable and immoveable assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The same BJP MLA was reported to have duped several in the name of employment and transfers.”
JKNPP leader demanded that PM Modi should order a probe into all assets and property accumulated by such leaders during the last around 3 years. He further called for high level probe into the widely reported traumatic phase of scams in J&K by proper investigations against the accused BJP Ministers, MP and MLAs.
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