Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 3: While majority of the ministers and MLAs belonging to the opposition parties faced Accountability Commission (AC) with respect to the complaints and charges levelled against them, it’s the BJP leaders alone who seem to have been granted immunity from all charge of corruption against them with AC having been abolished and other vigilante organizations having surrendered before them.
This was stated by Harsh Dev Singh, former Education minister while seeking revival of Commission or constitution of commission of Inquiry (COI) to probe the scams of such tainted ministers and MLAs. He said that while some leaders were exonerated by the Commission, several others were indicted but had obtained stay orders from courts which needed to be vacated.
The pertinent question, however, remained that why was the Accountability Commission abolished when it came to fixing the accountability of saffron leaders and trying them for omissions and commissions, asserted Singh. He maintained that AC was the highest and most reliable forum for trial of ministers, legislators and top bureaucrats in view of prominent judges of Supreme Court and Chief Justices of High Court of impeccable integrity constituting the said commissions. He said that with people having lost faith in several other anti-graft bodies, who worked at the behest of ruling party, it was the Accountability Commission alone which could conduct fair and impartial trials against these powerful politicians without any ill will or being influenced.
Pointing towards the repeated censuring of anti-graft organizations by the Supreme Court, Singh said that corruption could never be curbed until and unless the rulers and helmsmen stopped patronizing the corrupt. He said that with ruling parties interfering in the functioning of such vigilante bodies and dictating terms to them, it was impossible to check the menace of corruption.
It was therefore essential to constitute a forum like Accountability Commission and ‘Lokpals’ with judges of repute to punish those who had looted the public wealth.
Urging upon the Lt Governor to take cognizance of all reports of scams and frauds committed by these powerful politicians, Singh said that any delay in revival of Accountability Commission would further erode the reputation of the present regime.
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