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| Corrupt Ex-Ministers, MLAs shall be exposed, brought to justice: Harsh Dev | | | Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR, Apr 20: Accusing the vigilante organizations of booking merely the lower rung employees and inconvenient public functionaries in corruption cases and absolving the big fish and powerful politicians by overlooking their huge scams, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Former Minister urged upon the public to overthrow those leaders, who had abused their position and authority to loot the states resources, in the coming elections. He said that politics had become a profession for some unscrupulous characters to fill their coffers at the cost of public expense. He said that most of the ills afflicting the political system were the handiwork of corrupt politicians who needed to be exposed and ultimately brought to justice. He was addressing public meetings in villages Sunal and Kuh Nala of Udhampur East constituency today.
Charging the govt and anti graft bodies with double standards over the issue of corruption, Singh said that the mighty and influential including Ex-Ministers and MLAs were being allowed to go scot free despite several corruption cases and complaints of financial misconduct against them. Many of them had illegally encroached State lands, Forest lands, JDA lands, Municipal lands etc and raised unauthorized residential and commercial structures thereupon with none to take cognizance. Many of them were running unauthorized stone crushers, Hot mix plants, brick kilns and other illegal projects in violation of prevalent norms and procedures with none to question these bigwigs and influential politicians for their shady deals. And contrarily the govt agencies were evicting the poor, landless and other uninfluential people from their marginal land holdings and bulldozing their cottages and khokhas. He pointed out an Ex-MLA of Udhampur who had recently changed his party had constructed a bungalow in an environmentally fragile area of Adarsh Colony Udhampur which was declared as green zone with the authorities concerned having buried their heads in the sand for reasons best known. He said that the very same Ex-MLA had encroached 16 Kanals of State land in Samroli village of Udhampur and later got it regularized with the Udhampur administration having even failed to take action in consonance with High Court orders requiring publication of his name in the newspapers. Likewise the same Ex-MLA had got several municipal shops allotted for himself in MC Udhampur through dubious means which however was not probed by agencies despite complaints. He has got a Municipal Banquet Complex named 'Rivayat' Hall allotted in the name of one his cronies for 20 years in violation of the norms which envisage annual tenders for the auction of all such Halls in all such MCs. These are only a tip of the ice-berg with several other cases of frauds and irregularities having been committed by the said Ex-MLA and other political leaders having been pushed by a biased regime under the carpet.
Singh said that the public in general was suffering due to the misdeeds of the corrupt politicians who were siphoning the public funds meant for the welfare of the masses. He vowed to initiate legal proceedings against such corrupt Ex-Ministers and MLAs so as to not only unmask them but to further bring them to justice.
Assuring the small farmers, nomads and other poor and indigent masses to fight for their rights, Singh cautioned the govt to refrain from dispossessing them from their small land holdings which were their only sources of livelihood and survival. He further castigated the govt for its new guidelines requiring govt permission for construction of houses and shops in rural areas even on proprietary lands by the rural folk. |
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