Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 26: Expre-ssing serious concern over the growing corruption in the State with involvement of ministers and legislators, the NPP activists led by Harshdev Singh party chairman held a massive demonstration at Exhibition Ground here and torched the effigy of BJP.
The protesters were carrying placards and shouting slogans against BJP-PDP alliance. They sought CBI enquiry into the reports of scams involving ministers and legislators and immediate sacking of the accused.
Addressing the gathering, Harshdev said that the past two years completely unmasked the corruption plagued ruling alliance with involvement of ministers in several scams including encroachments of State, Forest lands, violation of codal formalities, transfer scams, purchases of spurious drugs, illegal mining permissions besides others with no action having been initiated in any of the cases. He said that the complaints of omissions and commissions, bunglings and other irregularities lodged by various social and political organizations besides the civil society continued to be thrown into the dustbin. He regretted that no enquires had been held into scores of scams reported in the media.
Commenting upon the recent media reports of huge money amounting to several crores having exchanged hands for granting permission for raising apartments in a highly sensitive and environmentally fragile area of Jammu, Singh sought a high level probe by CBI into the same. He further sought immediate action against the minister who was reported in the media to be transporting old scrapped illegal dirty cash worth crores for its exchange in official vehicle duly escorted by police teams
He appealed the Prime Minister to call for record of its ministers and legislators from J&K with a discreet enquiry into their conduct and antecedents by an unbiased team so as to arrive at the true state of affairs prevailing in the state unit of BJP.
Yash Paul Kundal while accusing the BJP of duplicity and double standards observed that its tall slogans of corruption were mere tantrums given for public consumption only. He sought action against tainted ministers and legislators.
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