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| Azad fires fresh salvo at Vikar Rasool says “petty” shopkeeper turned into a “crorepati” | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 17: After observing a “ceasefire” for quite some months, the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) Ghulam Nabi Azad fired a fresh salvo at his disciple-turned-foe Vikar Rasool Wani by calling him as a corrupt politician who earned money through corrupt practices during his tenure as minister.
Once a hardcore supporter of Ghulam Nabi Azad, Vikar Rasool Wani is president of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC).
“I picked up a boy from this area, who was petty shopkeeper and made him minister in the government but instead of serving the people he indulged in minting money and amassing wealth through corrupt practices”, Azad said while addressing a rally at Neel in the Banihal area of Ramban district.
Although Azad avoided mentioning the name of Vikar Rasool Wani, he was targeting the JKPCC chief because Banihal is the hometown of Wani.
“Instead of serving the people of this most backward area of J&K, the shopkeeper developed relations with big companies and brazenly indulged into amassing wealth”, Azad said and mentioned that the “shopkeeper” of Banihal has constructed two palatial houses in Jammu and is the owner of a huge chunk of land also.
“I have been in politics for a long but I could not construct even a house in Jammu but the same shopkeeper has constructed two”, he said, adding, “Such people are in politics only to mint money through illegal means”.
It is an open secret that it was all due to the blessing of Ghulam Nabi Azad that Vikar Rasool Wani was made a minister in the NC-Congress coalition government.
Although Wani was the first-time MLA, he was given a ministerial berth due to his closeness with Azad.
Important to mention here that earlier Azad made a startling disclosure about the links of some former ministers of the PDP-Congress regime with terrorists.
Azad said that he as a Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir had sent a report to the then Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil about the links of some political leaders of the State with the terrorists but the Central leadership took no action in this regard.
“Since I do not believe in hearsay, I tried to gather all the concrete proofs and then sent a detailed report to the then Prime Minister and the then Home Minister of India. But unfortunately, there was no action,” Azad remarked without naming Vikar Rasool Wani. |
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