Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Aug 25: Making an appeal to the Lt Governor to constitute a Commission of Inquiry (COI) against some MLAs and ministers who have accumulated huge wealth and disproportionate assets in the last six years, JKNPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the erstwhile State Govt for having failed to take action against the blemished politicians of BJP and PDP who had plundered public exchequer, encroached State lands, Forest, Municipal and JDA lands besides having installed illegal brick kilns, stone crushers and raised mammoth movable and immovable properties across J&K by abusing their position and authority.
Singh said that media and even erstwhile Governor SP Malik had referred to several scams in the J&K in insurance contracts, power projects, Forest Department besides large scale illegitimate back door appointments but the bigwigs continued to enjoy immunity in view of their political clout with no action initiated against corrupt politicians. He said that the outgoing Governor was on record having made repeated statements about some politicians having raised palatial bungalows at several places including Srinagar, Jammu, New Delhi and elsewhere through ill gotten wealth. But no action was initiate against such people.
Interestingly, the BJP tried to cover up the Roshni scam and also filed a review petition in the High Court after one of its own MLAs was found involved in the scandal.
Addressing public meetings at Jakhenu and Babey in Majalta today, Singh while describing the BJP Govt’s tall slogans of providing transparent, accountable and corruption free governance to the people a hoax, said that all such rants were made to enchant the masses for political gains. He said that several ex-BJP ministers and MLAs had been reported to have created huge assets, taken loan from J&K Bank amounting to Rs 30 crores and got it declared NPA and violated Defence Acts besides other violations in constructing un-authorized structures and palatial bungalows. He said that even during demonetization a BJP Minister’s vehicle was widely reported to have been apprehended while carrying huge ‘dirty cash’ for conversion into new currency notes.
Another minister’s spouse was reported to have been video-graphed while converting black money into gold. A yet another minister was accused of having taken several crores as bribe from his colleague for granting permission for construction of private apartments in an environmentally fragile area of Jammu, but no action was taken, Singh regretted.
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