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Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 14: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is keen to have Constitutional status for Central Bureau of Investigation- the primer investigating agency- has not shown such an interest to strengthen the primer anti-corruption agencies of the State.
Even the State Vigilance Commission is not a constitutional body as it has to report to the Chief Minister and not the Governor, as the case should have been.
Even the appointment of Chief Vigilance Commissioner was marred with the controversy as PDP-the principal opposition party had opposed the appointment of Kuldeep Khoda as the Vigilance Commissioner. The SVC even after the appointment of Commissioner has not been able to generate confidence of the people in its supposed aim of cleansing the system of corruption. After about a year of his appointment, the SVC has not held even one high official guilty of corruption. It's not only SVC, even the State Accountability Commission- which was supposed to keep cases against MLAs and ministers has not been given enough constitutional powers to take on 'powerful' people sitting in the Assembly.
The SAC has issued orders against former and sitting ministers. But they have been challenged in the court and government has not pursued the matter in the court to get the stay vacated.
The ministers against whom allegations of corruption were leveled had even questioned the motives of filing complaint. As in some case, the exact credentials of complainant were not known.
It all smacks of the callous and deliberate attempt by the government to have these anti-corruption agencies as just show pieces to be put up before the national and international media and forums to project the State as being sincere in its fight against corruption rather than doing really substantial on the ground.
"The state was adjudged as the second most corrupt States in the country. Every one knows how much wealth has been amassed by ministers as they know no one will take on them. It's in the knowledge of the CM and if he had not acted against it for the last five years clearly show where his interests lie," said a senior bureaucrat wishing not to be named. |
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