BJP hit back at NPP over rampant corruption in ADCs

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaSeptember 11, 2020

The state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said it has submitted all the documents related to the alleged rampant corruption in the two autonomous district councils (ADCs) with its request for a CBI inquiry.  

BJP state president, Ernest Mawrie said it was not surprising to see leaders running under the cover of ‘charges-are-unsubstantiated’ and ‘allegations-are-baseless’

“Who kisses and tells? But we want to assure the public that we came out to the press only after substantial proof of blatant corruption surfaced…we assure the people of Meghalaya that we have submitted all the documents with our request for a CBI enquiry,” he said.

Mawrie said as expected, efforts to hoodwink the public and to brush the dirt under the carpet have already begun.

He also slammed the National People’s Party (NPP) state president and Rajya Sabha MP, Wanwei Roy Kharlukhi for his statements on the matter.

“With regard to stepping down of the state party president, W Kharlukhi has no authority to comment on the internal matters of a national party. First he needs to update himself on who are in the NDA alliance, as recently after being elected he had named potential Prime Ministerial candidates from the eastern region, the likes of Tarun Gogoi and Mamata Banerjee,” Mawrie said.

“After the CBI inquiry proves that there is serious corruption then it will be W Kharlukhi who will have to resign as state party president and Rajya Sabha MP,” he added.

Reminding that the BJP do not support corruption, the party leader said, “For the BJP the people have always come first, and we do not look at forming a government at any level of governance as means to line our own beds will money generated from corruption.”

Stating that some of the proof is also for the public to see, he said almost 50% of all project undertaken by the GHADC are only on papers. Money has been spent on foot over bridges that only take people across mirage of development over barren grounds, he said.

He further said the people can also infer the truth from the fact that only after BJP highlighted the misutilization of funds did the EM of the JHADC came out and accepted that they had paid salaries with money meant for the benefit of the people.

“Please note that this is a whopping sum of Rs 20 crores that was diverted. Moreover, this ‘temporary arrangement’ is making a mockery of the funds received under the central scheme. The EM claims that the repayment of this ‘unauthorised loan’ is ‘conditional’ upon receiving money from the state government! Is such an arrangement even allowed? Is it even legal?” he asked.

Instead of worrying about whether the state BJP has discussed it with their legislators, or whether the charges have been made with the approval of the central leadership, etc., it would have really boosted the people’s confidence if for once the leaders of the various parties would have raised concern over the corruption that the BJP has unearthed, he said.