Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 2: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti, has said National Conference is the fountainhead of corruption in the State and it will only need an honest investigation of allegations against its top leadership to bring them to justice.
Addressing a number of meetings in Pahalgam Constituency of Anantnag district Mehbooba referred to the Chief Minister’s insinuation against the PDP on corruption issue, and said it was amusing that Chief Minister (CM) is asking the people to invoke right to Information (RTI) for ‘exposing the corrupt practices’ by some entrants into the PDP. “The CM is in control of entire investigation setup and he should be the last person to advise use of RTI because he can have the exposure and prosecution of any guilty person conducted whenever he likes,” she said.
Mehbooba said the Omar Abdullah Government has a lot to answer on corruption issue and if he had not deactivated the institutions like State Information Commission (SIC) and State Accountability Commission (SAC) most of the skeletons would by now have tumbled out and some leading lights of the Government could have met the fate of A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi.
She said the cricket scam against Dr Farooq Abdullah is an open and shut case and going by the documents in public domain the main characters should have been in jail as it would not need even a lengthy investigation. “The case, in fact, is reportedly awaiting prosecution and it is blocked only because Dr Abdullah’s son is the CM, and in the meanwhile he got himself re-elected as the president of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association in questionable circumstances,” Mehbooba said.
Mehbooba said there is, of course, need and scope for using RTI Act for seeking information on how the first family of National Conference and most of the coalition ministers amassed assets beyond their known income. “It should be invoked to know the truth of Haji Yousuf’s death; the drug scandal; PHE scam; forest land grab; kickbacks in various projects; Toshkhana properties; construction of palatial residences and acquisition of vehicles of royal standards for the elected representatives. And the process involved in granting repeated extensions to characters like Mushtaq Peer who subverted the most credible process of entrance examination,” she said.
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