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| SAC becomes defunct as accused politicians, bureaucrats get stay from HC: Vakil | | Asks CM to focus on development, not political issues | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 21: AICC member and ex-minister Abdul Ghani Vakil today said the state accountability commission (SAC) had become defunct due to the stays obtained from high court by the accused politicians and bureaucrats. Addressing seva dal and INTUC workers at Gandhi Nagar here, he stressed upon chief minister Omar Abdullah to break the nexus of corrupt people and take notice of adverse reports and irregularities against different departments regularly appearing in local newspapers. "There is a need of taking notice of such adverse reports for the reason that if they get unnoticed, the credibility of the coalition government will get eroded," Vakil said. He demanded the setting up of an independent commission to probe into the alleged disproportionate assets of ministers, ex-ministers, legislators and other public servants as the investigating institutions like SAC had become defunct due to the "stay got by most of the politicians and bureaucrats from the high court". Congress could not afford to maintain silence on the issues of corruption, he said and added that Sonia Gandhi too had dreamt of seeing Jammu and Kashmir as a peaceful and corruption-free state. Vakil said corruption had made the lives of poor people miserable and the government should leave no stone unturned in eradicating this menace so that ordinary people got justice. "If the government succeeds in eradicating this menace it will be the biggest achievement of the coalition government," he added. He lauded the role of Sonia and prime minister Manmohan Singh in "launching a crusade against corruption and said that it was towards this end that congress did not even spare its own people and leaders like former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan and senior Congress leader Suresh Kalmadi although only allegations of irregularities stood leveled against them". He stressed upon Omar to focus more on development rather than political issues. "It seems the government is busy with politics rather than the development works which he said are going at small pace," he asserted. The AICC member said economic issues should not be overshadowed by the political issues.
He appealed to the party workers to prepare themselves for local bodies elections and strengthen the party at grass root level. He also lambasted the opposition, saying it was not playing a constructive role in the state. The power hungry opposition was not taking up developmental issues but had been trying to exploit common masses by raising sentimental issues, he claimed.
The opposition, he said, was deliberately not playing its role to keep the government in dark. The Congress, however, would raise its voice against any type of irregularities to set the system right, he asserted.
The rally was also addressed by JKPCC general secretary Vinod Sharma, MLC Haji Ali Mohammad Bhat and Seva Dal's Balwinder Singh Sambyal. |
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