JAMMU: Expressing serious concern over the growing corruption in the state with involvement of Ministers and legislators being reported in the media on day to day basis, the JKNPP activists led by Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Yash Paul Kundal held a massive demonstration at exhibition ground Jammu and torched the effigy of BJP. The protestors carrying placards and shouting slogans against BJP-PDP alliance sought CBI enquiry into the reports of scams involving Ministers and legislators and immediate sacking of the accused pending enquiry.
Addressing the media persons, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh said that the past two years completely exposed and unmasked the corruption plagued ruling alliance with involvement of Ministers in several scams including encroachments of state lands, 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 thus providing official support to the deep rooted culture of patronized corruption in the state. He regretted that no enquires had been held into scores of scams reported in the media with the lame duck govt. acquiescing in the corrupt deals of the all powerful mafia operational in the state in collusion with political class.
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, Mr. 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 further pointed towards the reports of a BJP Minister appearing in the media having exchanged scrapped cash with gold in connivance with a Jeweller and sought a statement on the same. He said that another BJP MLA had raised a palatial bunglow after elections besides several other complaints of irregular acts against him committed by him by abusing his position and authority. Maintaining that war against corruption must begin from the top, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh sought immediate punitive action against those Ministers and legislators found involved in the alleged scams before initiating any action against common man and the un-influential.
“Physician heal thy self” said Mr. Harsh Dev Singh to the incumbent govt, “before finding a remedy for corruption plagued system” Referring to the tall slogans of Modi govt. to root out corruption, he said that fight against corruption, like charity, must begin from home. He appealed the Prime Minister, Mr. Modi 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 dared the central BJP leadership to take action against its tainted Ministers and legislators in the state if it had any qualms of conscience.
Prominent among those who spoke in the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Mrs. Manju Singh, Gagan Partap Singh, Mrs. Kesar Parveen, Sham Gorkha, Khajoor Singh, Udheyveer, Varinder Sharma, Arun Sharma, Nirmal Kishore, Raj Kumar, Sony Sambyal, Sanjeev, Vishal, Suresh, Sunil, Sahil besides others.
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