Thursday, December 2, 2010

CPI(M) To Observe Anti-corruption Week In Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh state secretariat of the CPIM has decided to observe the second week from December 6 to 13 as ‘Anti Corruption week’. A massive campaign will be launched to expose the sordid tale of corruption under the central UPA-2 and the BJP government of the state. Corruption in the 2G scam, corruption in the commonwealth (CWG) projects, lands scams corruption in Mumbai- Adarsh Housing society scam and corruption in land lease to private universities in the state are some of the major corruption scams that have come up in the recent past, member of State Secretariat of party Tikender Singh Panwar said in a press statement today.
He pointed out that “a drug controller who was caught red-handed taking bribes, arrested and now faces prosecution was reinstated back on his job.” The haste with private universities have been opened up, smack of corruption, he said adding that a major scam involving fake mark sheets and degrees has surfaced in the HP school education board, which only pointed to an nexus of officials with the perpetrators.

About the central government, he said massive scams like the common wealth games, land scams in Mumbai and the 2 G telecom scam show the level that corruption has reached in the country. “ At a time when people in this country demand a life free from hunger and unemployment, they are witnessing sordid scandals of large amounts of public money being looted, he said.

Only recently an international organization called Global Financial Integrity headed by a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director published a report that showed that in the last decade 5.7 lakh crores rupees of illegal financial flows went out of the country, Panwar, pointed out.

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