Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 19: Alleging illegal occupation of Government Bungalows, State and Forest lands by ex-MLAs/ex-Ministers of BJP, scores of NPP activists led by Harshdev Singh, chairman JKNPP and former Minister staged a vociferous protest demonstration outside the ACB (Anti Corruption Bureau) office, here today.
While raising slogans, the protesters sought immediate ACB probe against the corrupt politicians who were enjoying immunity against their misdeeds. The protestors clashed with the contingent of police deployed outside ACB Complex at Jammu.
Speaking to the media, Harshdev Singh said that J&K provided the most glaring example of patronized corruption and mis-rule. “It was shocking to note that BJP leaders who were not holding any position in Government and fell in common man’s category were occupying not only ‘Special Type’, ‘A-type’ Estates mansions but many of them were still living in Ministerial Bungalows”, divulged Singh while referring to the reply in response to RTI filed by him.
Asserting that RTI reply had further made a startling revelation with regard to huge arrears of rent of the BJP leaders Singh said that as and when the issue of illegal occupation of Estates quarters was raised by the public and the media, the Estates Department issued notices of eviction as an eyewash and window dressing for the gullible.
He said that despite five consecutive notices issued by Estates Department to the said un-authorized occupants since September 21, 2018, the much needed eviction had not been effected due the collusion between officers and such illegal occupants.
Admonishing the Government for failing to retrieve the encroached State lands from the BJP Ministers, MLAs and MPs, he said though the administration had identified some of the big encroachers of parties like Congress, NC and PDP but seemed to have given a free hand to the notorious land grabbers of the BJP.
Seeking a probe by ACB into the illegal occupation of Government property, State and Forest lands by BJP ex-Ministers and MLAs, Singh called for punitive action against the corrupt politicians and unscrupulous officers.
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