Vakil asked government not to shield corrupt bureaucrats and ministers. Several departments been found to swindled millions of rupees which stand detected by CAG: Vakil

GNS Baramulla September 01: Former minister and All India Congress Committee (AICC) member Abdul Gani Vakil has asked the government to not to shield corrupt bureaucrats and ministers both sitting as well former ones for the reason that this is setting a wrong precedence and discouraging upright and credible ones. It is only recently that Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had detected misappropriation of funds and allotment of works without procedural formalities which should be an eye opener for the government and sufficient enough to initiate a thorough probe.

Addressing one day party workers convention at Baramulla Dak Bungalow Vakil said that it becomes the moral responsibility of government to check corrupt practices and especially those mentors without whose patronage no official can dare to loot taxpayers’ money. Not only CAG report was sufficient enough to nail the guilty but recent judgment of division bench wherein it had asked government to not to sit on files of corrupt bureaucrats and politicians was enough indication that someone sitting at the helm of affairs was trying to shield guilty.

Several departments have been found to have swindled millions of rupees which stand detected by CAG. While R&B Department had dared to allot more than 2000 works without competitive bidding or following other procedural formalities. officials of fisheries department have swallowed rupees 50 lakh given to it by National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) for the maintenance of various channels across Kashmir valley and same is the position of other departments like PHE, Agriculture, Education and Rural Development. Such enormous scams if are not sufficient for the government to wake up then what is that for which government is waiting for to act, asked Vakil. He wondered as to what is stopping CM from holding an inquiry into such big frauds.

While addressing the convention Mr. Vakil said that the state government has time and again been reprimanded by the state high court for not shielding corrupt and it had been asked to give sanction for prosecution of corrupt bureaucrats and ministers but government was sitting like a mute spectator which is undermining its credentials. One wonders how the Chief Minister preferred to close a corruption case against a sitting minister rather to sanction prosecution against the minister which was pending. Time has come to start cleansing the system from top and not get satisfied by netting small fries merely for playing to the gallery, Vakil said.

Mr. Vakil said if the government delays in taking action against the corrupt the common masses will definitely get distanced from the government and the benefit will go to the opposition. He said that AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were collectively fighting a war against corruption and in such conditions state government of Jammu and Kashmir must not create hurdles in the course of law. Later Vakil asked the party leaders and workers to unite and launch a tirade against corruption.  

Mr. Vakil warned the government that if the didn’t take these scams seriously pouring in the media the congress will be forced to request the High Command to use a strategy which can save congress from disappearing in the scene of State.

Besides others who addressed include General Secretary J&K PCC Dr. Abdul Ahad Yatoo, Sr. Congress Leaders Abbas Jawhar, G.N Parvana, Youth Congress leaders Altaf Ahmad Malik Sheikh Manzoor and Rafiq Ahmad Wani