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| Who is clean in NC-Cong govt? | | SAC Asserting Authority | | Neha
JAMMU, Feb 23: Will the Jammu and Kashmir Accountability Commission (SAC) be able to stem the rot, cleanse the system and help the suffering, helpless and abandoned people finally get a clean and corruption-free administration? It is a very difficult question. However, one must hope for the best. The hope must stem from the manner in which the SAC has of late started acting against the corrupt or alleged to be corrupt.
What has the SAC done during the last few days? To start with, the commission served a notice on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and eight others, including two advisors to the Chief Minister. The notice asked the government did it not violate the constitution by conferring the status of minister on the political advisors and chairpersons of various boards. The SAC, in fact, opined that the advisors and chairpersons were accorded a particular treatment out of political considerations. The SAC accused the Chief Minister of indulging in political corruption in one sense.
This very significant notice was followed by yet another notice to Congress leader and Cabinet Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed. The SAC asked him if he or he didn't help his foster son to pass the matriculation examination using unfair means. What was highly significant was the fact that the SAC on its own took the initiative notwithstanding the fact that the Chief Minister had already divested Peerzada of his education portfolio, an unprecedented step that left everyone confused and aghast: Confused and aghast because Peerzada continues to be a minister holding other portfolio. Peerzada would appear before the commission on March 12, 2012. He may appear in person or he may explain his position through his duly nominated counsel. The charge is corruption of worst form: Misuse of official position and subversion of the system for getting his son passed.
Yesterday, the SAC started regular inquiry against and served notice on National Conference leader and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather and asked him to appear before it in person or through counsel on March 6, 2012 in connection with Smart Card allegations. There are many allegations against the said minister. The charge is corruption and misuse of official position. There is a compliant that alleges that Rather gave a contract worth Rs 2 crore to his son for smart cards for the civil secretariat employees "in gross violation" of certain necessary formalities. There is another allegation against him and the allegation is that he received "commission worth Rs 12 crore" from certain companies engaged for "computerisation of 5 lakh employees' data-base" known as Computerised Personal Information System (CPIS). There is yet another complaint against him and the complaint is that "in order to grab an amount of Rs 356 crore recently sanctioned by the central government for Dal Lake Abdul Rahim Rather hatched a plan in order to study the so-called Dal Catchments" and the purpose was to "mint more money in the name of preservation/conservation of the Dal".
These are very serious allegations against the Chief Minister, Peerzada and Rather. The SAC may also issue similar notices to ministers like Taj Mohi-ud-Din against whom their own party colleague and former Cabinet Minister Abdul Gani Vakil have levelled serious corruption charges. Certain cases of corruption against Taj Mhi-ud-Din are also in courts.
If what certain very reliable sources are to be believed, then it can be said that there is hardly anyone in the political establishment who is clean and above-board and that "everyone in the government is on a looting spree". The fact that the SAC has started playing the role it is supposed to is something noteworthy. One doesn't know what would be the outcome, but one can surely say that the SAC has started taking a step in the right direction. People have lost their faith in the political leadership and they would want the institutions like the SAC to play more pro-active role so that the corrupt are isolated and brought to justice. |
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