JAMMU: Expressing concern over the growing corruption in the State with involvement of Ministers and legislators being reported in the media, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) activists held a massive demonstration.
Panthers activists led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Yash Paul Kundal assembled at Exhibition Ground here and torched the effigy of BJP amidst anti-government slogans.
The protestors carrying placards against BJP-PDP alliance sought CBI enquiry into the reports of scams involving Ministers and legislators and immediate sacking of the accused pending enquiry.
Addressing the media persons, Harsh said that the past two years completely exposed and unmasked the corruption plagued ruling alliance with involvement of Ministers in several scams including encroachments of state lands, Forest lands, violation of codal formalities, transfer scams, purchases of spurious drugs, illegal mining permissions besides others with no action having been initiated in any of the cases.
Commenting upon the recent media reports of huge money amounting to several crores having exchanged hands for granting permission for raising apartments in a highly sensitive and environmentally fragile area of Jammu, Singh sought a high level probe by CBI into the same.
He further sought immediate action against the Minister who was reported in the media to be transporting old scrapped illegal dirty cash worth crores for its exchange in official vehicle duly escorted by police teams.
He further pointed towards the reports of a BJP Minister appearing in the media having exchanged scrapped cash with gold in connivance with a jeweller and sought a statement on the same.
He said that another BJP MLA had raised a palatial bunglow after elections besides several other complaints of irregular acts against him committed by him by abusing his position and authority.
“Physician heal thy self” said Harsh to the incumbent govt, “before finding a remedy for corruption plagued system” Referring to the tall slogans of Modi govt. to root out corruption, he said that fight against corruption, like charity, must begin from home. He appealed the Prime Minister, Modi to call for record of its Ministers and legislators from J&K with a discreet enquiry into their conduct and antecedents by an unbiased team so as to arrive at the true state of affairs prevailing in the state unit of BJP.
Kundal, while accusing the BJP of duplicity and double standards, observed that its tall slogans of corruption were mere tantrums given for public consumption only.
He dared the central BJP leadership to take action against its tainted Ministers and legislators in the state if it had any qualms of conscience.
Prominent among those who spoke in the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Manju Singh, Gagan Partap Singh, Kesar Parveen, Sham Gorkha, Khajoor Singh, Udheyveer, Varinder Sharma, Arun Sharma, Nirmal Kishore, Raj Kumar, Sony Sambyal, Sanjeev, Vishal, Suresh, Sunil and Sahil.