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| Omar Govt's Corruption war- For or Against ? | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Sept 2: While Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was questioning BJP's locus standi in demanding resignation of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over Coalgate scam that has brought the ensuing Monsoon Session of the Parliament to a grinding halt for over a week now, his own Government has given enough food and fodder to the Opposition in the last week for questioning his own stand against menace of corruption in the State.
It is ironical that the Chief Minister has gone on record with his war cries against corruption on several occasions, while his Government has been working overtime to weaken the anti graft institutions like the State Accountability Commission(SAC) and State Information Commission (SIC). The Accountant Generals of Omar Government are fighting a legal battle in the State High Court seeking to take sting out of State Accountability Commission after it issued notices to some of the Ministers and Legislators beside blue eyed bureaucrats and technocrats of the State. The General Administration Department of the Government has recently issued notices to amend the Right To Information Act to make the Commission toothless.
Interestingly, all this is being done at a time when the State High Court expressed its displeasure in unequivocal terms against Government's apathetical attitude in granting sanction to prosecute its senior administrative officer who have been indicted in several cases of graft and financial misappropriation by the State Vigilance Commission. Further, the CAG report has in clear terms pointed at the unholy nexus between politicians and contractors of the State who have hijacked the development process of the State for which huge funds are allocated by the Centre through various schemes.
After Opposition PDP launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah following mysterious death of NC functionary of political corruption and his father Farooq Abdullah of misappropriating JKCA funds, Omar could have done better in further strengthening the anti -graft institutions of the State rather than fighting multi tier battle for weakening them, in the process giving the opposition more reason to confront him with charges of fostering and patronising corruption in the State.
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