Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Aug 19: Former minister and JKNPP chairman, Harsh Dev Singh today alleged that with rampaging corruption having crossed all limits in J&K, the local administration and anti-corruption bodies seem to have granted immunity to the ‘offenders’ in view of the political clout enjoyed by them.
“Not only was corruption rampant in bureaucratic circles, but the corruption by some political persons has breached all previous records with vigilant organizations behaving as mute spectators. And all this notwithstanding the loud snubs that the administration has been receiving from the courts as well as the civil society,” Singh said.
Addressing public meetings at Noti, Naugalta, Chaksu, Gajad and Champeri in Chenani constituency during his two days tour, Harsh Dev while pointing towards the illegal usurping of Govt premises including ministerial bungalows by the BJP leaders, said that such unauthorized occupation of public premises provided the most glaring example of political corruption. And the nexus between the corrupt officers and politicians was evident from the fact that no action had been taken to evict them despite categoric orders of the High Court. Not only that the said leaders were availing all facilities in the illegally occupied houses at Govt expense without paying any rent and still the govt was harping on the slogans of ‘good governance’ and corruption free dispensation.
Several former and Ex-MLAs of BJP had usurped huge state land, Forest lands besides Municipality and JDA lands but seemed to have been granted immunity with none to take cognizance. The Govt booked Lal Singh after he quit the BJP for alleged encroachments on Govt lands but has maintained a studied silence with regard to the illegal encroachments of govt land by several leaders of the saffron party whose names had come in public domain on several occasions, Singh added.
He flayed the authorities concerned for pathetic condition of Barmeen-Ghordi road, Charat–Pakhlai , Tandhar–Satyalta–Charat and Chenani–Pattangarh road and sought their immediate completion/upgradation.
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