Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 13: Shiv Sena Hindustan (SSH) today demanded Governor to make public the names of politicians and bureaucrats involved in the “backdoor appointments” in J&K Bank.
Addressing a press conference here, today, Shiv Sena Hindustan national vice president, Pt Rajesh Kesri while citing media reports said that 582 candidates recruited by the Jammu and Kashmir Bank were replaced with the political appointments, recommended by the leaders from every constituency under PDP-BJP Coalition Government led by Mehbooba Mufti.
He demanded a full-fledged inquiry into the appointment of nearly 600 political favourites in the Bank during erstwhile PDP-BJP regime and underlined that the Chairman of the Bank cannot escape responsibility for betraying the public trust. Youth is upset and there is need to have a fair selection process in the State. The Chairman of the J&K Bank cannot escape responsibility if 582 political favourites were appointed in the J&K Bank by PDP-BJP. JK Bank involves trust and money of the common people of Jammu and Kashmir and how can Chairman or somebody else misuse it,” Kesri told media persons.
There should be a full-fledged inquiry and those responsible shall be punished for benefitting political or other favourites. He said there are numerous businessmen including those from outside State who have availed huge loans from J&K Bank and are not paying it back. Enquiry should be ordered and those Bank officers responsible for the loss to the bank should be punished,” he added.
Kesri welcomed the step by Government to sack J&K Bank Chairman but said that only removing the Chairman is not the solution and emphasized for conducting in-depth enquiry into many wrong-doings in the Bank which included backdoor illegal appointments, allotments of loans worth hundreds of crores without formalities in “brazen violation” of Standard Operating Procedures and release of Overdrafts of hefty amounts to habitual defaulters of other banks. He requested the Governor to investigate and cancel all illegal appointments of relatives of PDP and BJP leaders and conduct fresh and fair recruitment so that worthy can get their rights.
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