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| SAC, SVO have been rendered defunct: Gani Vakil | | Cong leader views Omar Govt as haven for corrupt Ministers, bureaucrats | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 27: In days of the Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs according sanction to his prosecution on the criminal charges of defaming Minister of Irrigation and PHE and senior Congress leader, Taj Mohiuddin, former Minister and legislator Abdul Gani Vakil has claimed that both the accountability watchdogs—State Accountability Commission and State Vigilance Organisation—had been rendered “defunct” by some organs of the State Government. According to him, Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government had become a haven for corrupt Ministers and bureaucrats.
Addressing a gathering of his supporters at his Srinagar residence today, Vakil said that corruption and nepotism in our system had started spreading like a virus and Government was behaving like a mute spectator. The institutions like State Accountability Commission and State Vigilance Commission Organisation and State Vigilance Commission had been rendered defunct. He said that corrupt in the Government, or outside the Government, had made a mockery of the system by seeking stay against SAC orders and by stalling the wheel of justice.
Vakil expressed concern over the continued stay order obtained by some sitting and former Ministers and bureaucrats in the last four years and no step had been taken by the Government to get the stay orders vacated. He asked if the Government had become party in shielding corrupt people, how a common man could expect justice from the Government. Vakil said if the Government would have been serious in eradicating this menace, it would have activated its lawyers and got the stay orders vacated and the guilty punished.
Vakil said that it was quite alarming that there was no one in the Government who could take cognizance of innumerable number of reports appearing in daily newspapers. He said it was because of this muteness of the Government that the people in general had begun to lose their faith in the system of governance. He said that revelations by RTI activists had brought to the surface alarming irregularities in various departments but the Government was “sitting like a lame duck”.
Acknowledging their support to his crusade against corruption, Vakil assured his party workers that he would not rest till those looting the tax payers’ money were brought to justice. He asserted that he would keep raising his voice against corruption and not let the system collapse. He urged the Government to strengthen SAC by giving it an independent investigating agency and also appoint Commissioner of SVC immediately. Any further delay, he said, would tantamount to Government’s inability to fight corruption.
He also urged Chief Minister to immediately accord sanction to prosecution of the cases which are pending for sanction for years. People at large, he said, should know as to why sanction to the prosecution of corrupt Ministers and bureaucrats was not being accorded.
“Despite court orders to explain reason for not according sanction to the prosecution against corrupt IAS, IFS and KAS officials, the Government is sitting silent which speaks how willfully it wants to protect the corrupt”, he alleged. Referring to recent statement of Rahul Gandhi, MP and AICC General Secretary, of playing a bigger role in the country in days to come, Vakil said that this was the need of hour. Rahul Gandhi himself had resolved to fight corruption and being a young and dynamic leader he could take a lead from the front in his resolve, Vakil said. |
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