JK News Today
Jammu, February 26:
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday hit out at the National Conference for its misinformation campaign on KVIB recruitments and reminded it of shady recruitments in different government departments involving close kith and kins of NC leaders.
The Party said it was for the first time in the history of J&K that a Chief Minister has ordered a probe into the recruitments within 24 hours after it came under doubts unlike the past practice where a Chief Minister defended backdoor appointments several times on the floor of the legislatures.
He, however, took a dig at the National Conference (NC) for misleading the people and asked its leadership to go for introspection before casting aspersions on others. “Those who have been raising fingers on us must explain to the people about the backdoor appointments National Conference and its leaders made all over the years and shamelessly made its Chief Minister to defend the same on the floor of house”, he said.
“The State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) had established 37 illegal appointments in the state legislative assembly made by three ex-Speakers including two from NC” Tak said while referring to the backdoors appointments made by the NC.
“Out of these 37 appointments, 28 appointments were made by the former Speaker alone. Where was the conscious of the party leaders at that time,” he said.
He further reminded NC leaders of statement made by the former Chief Minister and their leader Omar Abdullah when he had asked the PDP to seek intervention of the SVO or State Accountability Commission (SAC) on the issue of backdoor appointments in Jammu and Kashmir Bank.
“Omar Abdullah did not muster the courage to order a probe into the illegal appointments made by his government in the Bank. When issue was raised in State Legislative Assembly Mr. Abdullah on June 14, 2014 preferred to give sermon to PDP asking it to approach SVO, SAC to file the compliant for investigation. This is what the NC leadership only could do,” he said.
