Govt dragging name of Dera Mahant in Roshni scam: SUF

SUF chairman, SS Wazir addressing press conference in Jammu on Friday.
SUF chairman, SS Wazir addressing press conference in Jammu on Friday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 27: Sikh United Front (SUF) has alleged that by dragging the name of Mahant Manjit Singh of Dera Nangali Sahib ( Poonch) in Roshni scam is hurting the sentiments of Sikh community.
Addressing a press conference here today Sikh United Front (J&K) chairman, Sudershan Singh Wazir said that with the recent investigations going on into the Roshni Scheme, many ex- ministers, bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen are named into the scam . By dragging the name of Mahant Manjit Singh Ji of Shiromani Dera Nangali Sahib, Poonch unnecessarily into this, J&K government is playing with the sentiments of Sikh community whereas the facts speaks otherwise. He said the land measuring 7 kanal 2 marlas which has been mutated on the name of Mahant Manjit Singh ji is situated in the existing premises of adjoining area of Mahant Bachiter Singh College of Engineering and Technology at Babliana Jammu.
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Wazir said that the proposal for the ownership of the said land as per the Roshni Act scheme promulgated by the government was submitted to the competent authority as provided in the rules and regulations made by the government and subsequently the then Deputy Commissioners Jammu approved the transfer of the land as per the provisions of the Roshni scheme on the name of Mahant Manjit Singh ji in the year 2008. Thereafter the land measuring 7 kanal 2 marlas was mutated on the name of Mahant Manjit Singh ji after depositing the required amount.
Wazir further said that it is pertinent to note that the said land is not for any commercial use or for the personal use of Mahant Manjit singh ji but is a part of the institution namely Mahant Bachiter Singh College of Engineering and Technology and this open area with in the college complex is being used only for parking the buses and other transport facilities of the institution.
He said MBS College of Engineering and Technology is premier institute of Engineering and Technology in J&K where thousands of students from different parts of J&K studied and graduated and today are well off in their life.So by equating the mutation of the land with those other persons who have usurped the state land through illegal means or got the lands transferred on their names for commercial or personal use while the mutated land on the name of Mahant Manjit singh is not for any personal use rather used for institutional purposes which institution is serving the civil society of J&K.
Senior leaders Darbinder Singh, Mohinder Singh, Rajinder Singh. Ravinder Singh and others also accompanied.