*Assails Govt on smart meters, toll plazas, unemployment
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: Congress today took to streets seeking CBI probe into alleged scam in Rs 14000 cr Jal Jeevan Mission project in Jammu & Kashmir besides issues of smart meters, toll plazas, Property tax, rising prices and record unemployment.
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Leading a large protest, JKPCC president, Vikar Rasool Wani demanded CBI probe into allegations leveled by senior IAS officer, who headed the Jal Shakti Department as Principal Secretary, Ashok Kumar Parmar, who has filed a complaint before the National SC Commission. He questioned the failure of Central Govt. to order a high level probe into the serious allegations of bungling in the multi- crore project for J&K.
Accompanied by working president, Raman Bhalla and all senior leadership of the party, the large number of prominent congress leaders and workers including functionaries of PCC, DCC, Frontal wings, corporators ex- corporators, blocks and wards of Jammu district Urban & Rural took out a strong protest march from Shaheedi chowk headquarters towards Raj Bhawan.
The police had a tough time to stop the protestors at Residency Road and they were persuaded not to proceed ahead. They raised strong slogans demanding CBI probe into JJM scam, against installations of smart meters, removal of Toll Plaza, property tax, rising prices and unemployment.
Talking to reporters, Wani demanded a CBI probe into allegations of the senior IAS officer who has highlighted a scandal into implementation of JJM in the UT. He also strongly criticized the government into the installation of pre-paid smart meters, failure to remove Toll plaza at Sarore despite the Minister Nitin Gadkari declaring it illegal, imposing property tax besides large scale unemployment and price rise.
JKPCC chief said Congress alone can lead the people towards peace, progress and harmony and equitable development of all regions and sections of society. He appealed people to teach BJP a lesson in all coming elections right for ULB, Panchayats, Assembly and Lok Sabha and also demanding restoration of statehood and early assembly elections.
Raman Bhalla also demanded CBI probe into Jal Jeevan Mission project implementation and the serious allegations by Parmar, which is very serious matter.
Prominent others present on the occasion include Mula Ram, Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Kanta Bhan, Ravinder Sharma, Balbir Singh, Ved Mahajan, Gurbachan Kumar Rana, Indu Pawar, Vinod Sharma, Manmohan Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Hari Singh Chib, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Kapil Singh, Dwarka Choudhary, TS. Tony, Gurdarshan Singh, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Narinder Gupta and Neeraj Gupta.
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