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| Now in boycott mode, party forgets its ruthless embezzlements of past | | How Congress in JK legitimized corruption | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 11: As Congress party has come out in open, announcing boycott of the BDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir and making every bid to appease separatists, it seem to have forgotten how the anti- graft bodies have registered a plethora of cases against its senior ministers in the past.
A senior congress leader was accused of swindling money in the Urban and local bodies Department. A massive recruitment racket was reported in Urban Local Bodies department in 2011, the flagship department that oversees local governance through municipal bodies across Kashmir.
The department had allegedly made over 1,500 illegal appointments, almost doubling the number of employees, with devastating consequences: funds from local tax collection, devolution funds from the state's revenue and the Centre's developmental grants are now exclusively used to pay salaries.
In the month of December 2012, Congress minister of PDP- Congress coalition, State Accountability Commission (SAC) issued notice to here for creating immovable property through a trust which was meant to serve the weaker sections of society. Omar Abdullah on the floor of house in 2014 said the government is investigating the matter but the reality seems the contrary. No action as usual taken so far.
The case of misappropriation of money and misuse of official position against a senior congress leader and minister, former Minister in Ghulam Nabi Azad government, is pending for regular inquiry in the State Accountability Commission since 2012. On March 27, 2012, SAC issued notices to former Minister for works, several officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) and a high profile private contractor taking cognizance of a complaint with regards to Rs 30 cr Ganpat Bridge project and also sought comments from Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who was the Chairman of the Corporation, Reports at that time used to galore that several other projects worth crores were allotted to the same contractor allegedly at the behest of politicians and bureaucrats flouting codal formalities were incomplete even as payments against them stand released.
One of the senior most leaders of the Congress party and Jammu & Kashmir Hajj and Auqaf minister, was too involved in the 'infamous' copying scam, and helped his foster son to qualify matriculation examination by using unfair-means.
In another case, in the infamous Panchayat Ghar scam, Sayeed was accused that during his tenure as Rural Development minister, he had purchased computers, cement, steel trunks, furniture and various other items of daily use worth Crores of rupees on exorbitant rates.
Another infamous scam worth over Rs 1000 crore involving a senior congress minister was reported some years ago. He was found involved in a housing cooperative society scam.
Now, when the new state government has shown that it will make the system clean and workable, what remains to be seen by the people is the action that it will take against the former ministers who instead of mitigating peoples' woes emptied state coffers to fill their own. |
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