Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 29: Making an appeal to the Governor to constitute a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) against the corrupt MLAs and ministers who have accumulated huge wealth and disproportionate assets in the last three and a half years, Chairman of the JKNPP and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the erstwhile State Govt for having grossly failed to take action against the blemished politicians who had looted public exchequer, encroached State lands, Forest lands, Municipal and JDA and Custodian lands besides installed illegal brick kilns, stone crushers, hot mix plants and raised mammoth movable and immovable properties in various parts of the state by abusing their position and authority.
Addressing a press conference here today, Harsh Dev while describing the PM Modi’s tall slogan of providing transparent, accountable and corruption free governance to the people as hoax, said that all such rants were made to enchant the masses for political gains. He said that several ex- BJP Ministers and a sitting BJP MP had been reported of late to have created huge assets, taken loan from J&K Bank amounting to Rs 30 crores and got it declared NPA besides defied norms and procedures and violated the defence acts besides violations in constructing un-authorized structures and palatial bungalows.
Revealing further, Singh said that several BJP Ministers were accused of promoting transfer industry in the State, allotment of works without tenders and back door appointments made in Govt departments on monetary and extraneous considerations. Moreover, several Ministers and MLAs had encroached huge state lands, and Forest lands and Custodian lands whose adverse reports had been submitted even by the investigating agencies against them, Harsh disclosed.
Accusing several ex-ministers and a sitting MP for running illegal pollution creating units including stone crushers, brick kilns, hot mix plants etc without NoCs in a gross violation of the directions of High Court and Supreme Court, he regretted that two illegal stone crushers were operational in Kishanpur-Manwal but the authorities concerned had termed a blind eye to the same.
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