Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: Veteran leader and former Minister Thakur Randhir Singh today said that corruption is a serious problem in J&K and the UT administration should take effective steps to root it out from the system.
Welcoming the Central Government plan to go tough with corrupt politicians and bureaucrats for which it has decided to depute special officers from New Delhi in the CBI, ED and ACB to take up the cases and investigate them, Singh said appointing Lokpal and Lokayukt in the Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh will help in rooting out corruption.
The veteran leader emphasized the Central Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Lt Governor administration to tackle the most serious problem of corruption in the State which has become as an industry for the politician, bureaucrats, businessmen and some Central agencies.
Singh said majority of the politicians and ex-Chief Ministers, ministers, MLAs and MLCs misused funds under CDF. He said later or sooner they will meet the same fate of 5-times Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala, who have been sentenced to ten years jail in a corruption case of just to regularize few teachers.
He said more than 300 complaints against former ministers, MLAs, MLCs and MPs of various parties besides IAS, IPS, IFS officers, J&K Bank officials, Vice Chancellors etc, are pending before State Accountability Commission (SAC) but nobody is bothered in the administration.
Singh said many top bureaucrats have not filed their property statements and demanded that those who failed to file the property statement their names should be published in newspapers.
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