Jammu, December 2 : Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said that Roshni scam had illuminated the Gupkar bungalows, but extinguished hope for the poor, which had been launched by the then Government with the apparently envisaged objective of raising an amount of Rs.25,000 crore for setting up Power projects in Jammu & Kashmir, which were said to provide electricity to each and every household including the houses of economically weaker sections of society. However, in the final bargain, what was witnessed was that all the loot out of the scam went into the construction of lavish bungalows at Gupkar Road and other VIP locations, whereas the poor neither got the electricity nor the house.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said, over the last one decade, BJP had been consistently demanding a thorough and impartial probe into the embezzlement that had taken place in the name of the “Roshni” scheme. But, he said, successive governments run by National Conference, Congress and PDP did not agree for the probe and instead sought to cover up the scam because the Ministres and the Chief Ministers of the then governments were themselves beneficiaries of the scam.
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