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| 'It is a coalition of corruption and loot' | | Mufti seeks peoples' support for change | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 10 : Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today sought peoples' cooperation for ushering in an era of fairness and transparency in the state. He was addressing a workers convention in Parnewa , Kremshor of Khansahib constituency in Budgam district today.
"It is a coalition of corruption and loot", he said adding "The state would have been one of the most developed parts of the country if corruption had not been promoted here almost as a state policy."
He said it was a cause of concern that while in rest of the country a strong movement has been launched against this menace in Jammu & Kashmir the people are indifferent and unconcerned.
He said the situation cannot be retrieved under the present dispensation as it has deliberately subverted institutions of vigilance, transparency and probity. Mufti sought peoples' support for bringing in the much needed change.
Mufti said the PDP would launch a war against corruption in public life and start with enforcing accountability in high places whenever it got a chance with the support of the people. He said it was to cover up the loot and brazen corruption indulged in by its members that the present government had subverted the institutions like State Accountability commission (SAC) , State vigilance commission (SVC), State Information Commission (SIC) and the vigilance department and there was a free for all in selling everything that had anything to do with the government.
Jobs, tenders, money from treasuries, postings and transfers, certificates and mandates, everything was on sale he said. Declaring that the PDP would provide an independent anti corruption mechanism which could not be compromised or subverted by any government Mufti said the state accountability commission had been envisaged to be the equivalent of the Lokpal that rest of the country was still making an effort to constitute. But, in absence of an independent investigation arm and ability of the government to provide support to it the institution had lost its relevance with action on most of the cases taken up by it halted through judicial intervention over technical niceties.
He said it was sad that instead of offering himself for probe the chief minister had led the process of trivialization of SAC by going to court challenging its jurisdiction. His colleagues had taken the same route to escape law he said.
The PDP patron said the present government has neither the will nor the moral strength to fight corruption as its leading lights are facing serious charges like the mysterious death of Haji Yusuf and the cricket association scandal involving crores of rupees.
He said given the miseries faced by people of J&K, it would easily qualify for the most misgoverned state of the country. "Nowhere in the country would one have to stay in queue for commodities like gas and kerosene" he said and added that a decent living was a fundamental right of the people which had been denied to them in this state.
Speaking on this occasion PDP General Secretary Mohammed Dilawar Mir accused the government for present power situation in the valley. He said while the entire coalition government is responsible for the crisis faced by the people, the power disaster can squarely be attributed to the Chief Minister who has been heading the department for the last four years. Senior leader and former legislative council chairman Gh Nabi Lone Hanjura , district president Budgam Saifudin Bhat and zone president Bashir Ahmad were also present and spoke on the occasion.
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