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| ‘CAG report must serve as an eye opener’ | | Nail the corrupt, Vakil tells Govt | | Early Times Report
baramulla, Sept 1: Former Minister and All India Congress Committee (AICC) member Abdul Gani Vakil has asked the Government not to shield corrupt bureaucrats and Ministers. He also sought similar action against former Ministers and bureaucrats saying it was setting a wrong precedent and discouraging upright and credible persons. He was addressing one day party workers convention at Dak Bungalow in Baramulla.
"It is only recently that Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) detected misappropriation of funds and allotment of works without procedural formalities which should be an eye opener for the Government and sufficient enough to initiate a thorough probe", he said.
Vakil said that it becomes the moral responsibility of Government to check corrupt practices. "The mentors without whose patronage no official can dare to loot taxpayers' money need to be taken care of", he said.
Vakil said not only was CAG report sufficient to nail the guilty but recent judgment of division bench wherein it had asked Government not to sit on files of corrupt bureaucrats and politicians was enough indication that someone sitting at the helm of affairs was trying to shield the guilty.
Several departments, he said have been found to have swindled millions of rupees which stand detected by CAG. "While R&B Department had dared to allot more than 2000 works without competitive bidding or following other procedural formalities, officials of Fisheries department have swallowed rupees 50 lakh given to it by National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) for the maintenance of various channels across Kashmir valley", he said.
According to him other departments like PHE, Agriculture, Education and Rural Development had a similar story to tell. "Such enormous scams must be sufficient to move the Government. He wondered as to what was stopping CM from holding an inquiry into such big frauds", he said.
Vakil said that the State Government has time and again been reprimanded by the State High Court for shielding corrupt and it had been asked to give sanction for prosecution of corrupt bureaucrats and Ministers but Government was sitting like a mute spectator which is undermining its credentials. "One wonders how the Chief Minister preferred to close a corruption case against a sitting Minister rather to sanction prosecution against the Minister which was pending. Time has come to start cleansing the system from top and not get satisfied by netting small fries merely for playing to the gallery", he added.
The former Minister said if the Government delays action against the corrupt the common masses will definitely get distanced from the Government and the benefit will go to the opposition. He said that AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were collectively fighting a war against corruption and in such conditions State Government of Jammu and Kashmir must not create hurdles in the course of law. Later, Vakil asked the party leaders and workers to unite and launch a tirade against corruption.
He said the Congress shall be forced to take up the matter with the high command if action against the corrupt was not taken immediately. Besides others who addressed include General Secretary J&K PCC Dr. Abdul Ahad Yatoo, Sr. Congress Leaders Abbas Jawhar and G.N Parvana, Youth Congress leaders Altaf Ahmad Malik Sheikh Manzoor and Rafiq Ahmad Wani. |
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