| Congress leader accuse BJP MLA Samba of corruption, embezzlement of funds | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 11: Congress leader Sunny Sangral has accused BJP MLA from Samba of embezzlement of funds meant under National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (NREGA) in the district. Sangral alleged that funds meant for works in Gram Sabhas are being diverted and siphoned off by contractors having close links with MLA.
Addressing a press conference, Sangral claimed that there is liability of lakhs of rupees on works under taken under NREGA have not being cleared since 2014-15 when BJP government came to power in New Delhi and during its three years rule in jammu and Kashmir.
"Job cards are being made but people are not provided work. Liabilities worth lakhs of rupees of people are not being cleared. Only BJP workers get their bills cleared", Sangral alleged. He alleged that latrines being constructed under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan for defecation free villages is riddled with corruption. "people approaching for money to construct latrines are being provided meager amount while the rest is wrongly mentioned in ledger books and embezzled", Congress leader said.
He appealed Governor Satya Pal Malik to order high level probe in the misuse of funds under different centrally sponsored schemes being implemented in Samba district since 2015 when the BJP led government formed government in Jammu and Kashmir. "Since 2015 majority of the works have been allotted to workers of BJP or those close to MLA. It is important to probe the links in works being undertaken in the district", Sangral said. Others who were present in the press conference include, Sahil Gupta, Vivek Saproo, janak Raj and Shubam Gupta. |
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