Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 29: Alleging conferment of multifarious facilities by the present regime to Ex-MLAs/Ex-Ministers of BJP to the exclusion of all other political parties, Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister and senior JKNPP leader said that J&K continued to witness two sets of laws even after the abrogation of its special status.
“While Rahul Gandhi was asked to vacate the Govt bungalow immediately after his disqualification as MP, the Ex-MLAs of BJP have been allowed to retain palatial Govt mansions in J&K even after around five years of dissolution of Legislative Assembly,” he said while addressing a press conference in Jammu today.
Harsh Dev alleged that double standards and patronized corruption had become the hallmark of BJP rule with the present Govt openly conferring benefits upon saffron leaders while victimizing and harassing the opposition leaders. He expressed his dismay over the open violation of SOPs and guidelines in the matter of allotment of Government accommodation so as to confer undue and illegitimate benefits upon the political persons owing allegiance to saffron party and its allies.
“BJP leaders who are not holding any position in Government and fell in common man’s category have been occupying not only ‘special type’, ‘A-type’ Estates mansions but many of them are still living in Ministerial Bungalows. JKNPP office was sealed in Jammu while the Apni Party and People Conference were allowed to retain Govt bungalows as their political offices,” he said and added that not only the Estates Bungalows but the Govt and security vehicles and PSOs were also being allotted purely on political considerations.
Seeking a high level probe into the whole gamut of bungalows and security allotment, Singh called for punitive action against the officers who were acting more as BJP servants than public servants. He said that non adherence to any set of norms and differential treatment of political parties by abusing of public exchequer and conferring benefits upon favourities was not only a crime but a financial scam which needed due attention of the vigilante bodies and Comptroller General of India.
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