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SRINAGAR: Prof. Saifuddin Soz, former Union Minister and senior Congress leader on Monday said it is good that the Government has brought some details of the Roshni Land scam to light in the J&K Legislative Assembly.
“The Government cannot, under any circumstances, hold back full information regarding the scam, from the people of the country, especially, the people of the J&K State. The people of the State feel convinced that it is an opportunity for it (the Govt.) to prove that it wants to fight the rampant corruption in the State”, he added.
“The so-called Roshni Scheme has been implemented fraudulently and that too deliberately to yield benefits to long-armed individuals. The Government has admitted that the revenue from this scheme to the exchequer has been next to nothing. If the Government revealed a sketch of the scam, in public interest, it has to move further to make comprehensive details available”, he stated further urging the State Government to make public the fullest possible details on the beneficiaries of the scam through a White Paper immediately.
“After the Revenue Minister’s statement, it has become a situation of compulsion for the Chief Minister to provide fullest details on the beneficiaries and the measures that the Government would take to rectify the damage that the scam has caused to the system of governance in the State,” he maintained.
