JKNPP activists lock State Vigilance Commission Office;BJP-PDP made SVC defunct to save their ministers, MLAs: Harsh

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JAMMU: Holding the BJP-PDP responsible for rendering the State Vigilance Commission (SVC) completely defunct besides soaring menace of corruption including large scale bungling in multifarious departments, contingent of Panthers Party activists spearheaded by Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and former Minister staged a massive protest against the State Government outside the office of SVC, here on Thursday. The agitated protestors locked the main gate of SVC to lodge their resentment.
Lambasting the State Government’s nonchalant attitude towards the SVC having led to its redundancy, Harsh observed that the ministers and MLAs particularly those of BJP were in notion that while the vigilance to check the vices was good for others, they should be left free and unquestioned.
He accused the BJP-PDP government of deliberately crippling the SVC in the State to end the regime of surveillance, scrutiny and observation and regretted that the Commission had become another white elephant with State Government spending crores in vain.
Surprised over the government’s reluctance to initiate the process of appointment of Chief Vigilance Commissioner and two Commissioners to the SVC after the retirement of the incumbents, he revealed that due to the State dispensation’s vested interests the GAD had not even prepared the list of the candidates for these posts which unveiled the bitter truth that the Coalition Government was hell bent to kill the vigilance mechanism for saving its own skin. Concerned over the media reports exposing scams,
large scale bungling, corruption and cases of loot and plunder by the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, he said that the reconstitution of the SVC
headed by honest incumbents was the need of the hour to curb all vices prevailing in the State’s politico-administrative
apparatus.
Demanding immediate appointment of CVC and Commissioners to the State Vigilance Commission, he asserted that Panthers Party shall expose the sinister coalition for its wrong doings and continue its crusade against corruption, come what may.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Pawan Dev Singh, Gagan Pratap, Parshotam Parihar, Pushpinder Singh, Raj Kumar Jandial, Nirmal Kishore, Mohinder Singh, Neeraj Gupta, K.K Sharma, Rashpaul Singh, Soni Sambyal, Ram Paul, Sukhjeet, Bodh Raj, Gian Chand, Jeevan Lal and Ajeet Sharma.