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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 4: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress today demanded immediate resignation of MoS in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh, following serious allegations by senior BJP leader and former MLC Vikram Randhawa against him and several officers accusing them of patronage in collecting money through illegal mining and coercion besides seeking high level probe to bring the entire truth into public and expose the nexus.
Addressing a press conference on behalf of the party here today JKPCC Chief Spokesperson of the party Ravinder Sharma demanded that MoS PMO should immediately step down in view of open allegations by his own senior party colleague and a former legislator and face the probe to come out clear.
In view of open allegations of very serious nature, the Minister must step down on his own, otherwise the PM Narendra Modi should seek his resignation and order an independent probe into the matter, they said adding that the heads should roll and law should take its own course like in the recent case of a minister in Maharashtra.
The onus is on the Prime Minister Modi, since the Minister in PMO is accused of serious allegations by a senior politician of his own party who also heads a big industrial organization involved in stone crushing and providing key building materials in Jammu and Kashmir, the prices of which have increased manifold in recent years beyond the paying capacities of common citizens.
Taking strong note of the big disclosures and the serious allegations of “hafta culture” by some officers in the administration under the patronage of higher ups in the government, the Congress party launched a frontal attack on the BJP in view of the revelations of their own senior leader.
For the time being BJP seems to silence their dissenting voice but it is no longer their internal matter and is in public domain in a serious manner calling for bringing the entire truth in public in accordance with settled traditions of public life and democracy, said Ravinder Sharma.
Reiterating that this case is a test case for Prime Minister Modi who should prove that the highest traditions of the people sitting in high offices are observed to maintain the faith of the general public, he also expected the LG and the UT administration to immediately take prima facie action and heads should roll to send a clear message otherwise people will further lose faith in the system if such a serious issue is brushed aside or put under carpet.
Referring to the worsening situation on covid, the senior party leader expressed their sympathies with the bereaved families who have lost their kith and kin and facing great sufferings in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere in the world especially due to shortage of required health facilities.
The government and UT administration had more than a year to manage the facilities and vaccine and oxygen in sufficient quantity but the government was busy in elections till date, ignoring the emerging health emergency and things have gone beyond control. |
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