SHILLONG, JAN 5: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today said that the CBI should prosecute the officials of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) for allowing the BJP to allegedly misuse its funds for holding party rally.
He was referring to the BJP’s celebrating its three-year in government at the centre at Amlarem last year while reacting to a query relating to the CBI which had booked PWD minister Ampareen Lyngdoh in the 2009 education job scam.
“NEEPCO officials have to be prosecuted and that is where the CBI should go for inquiry. How many such illegalities they have done? They should take suo moto case on this,” Sangma told reporters at the sidelines of a party function here.
He alleged that the BJP while celebrating their three years in government in Amlarem had allegedly misused the funds of the NEEPCO, a government undertaking.
“They (BJP) have the audacity to use that platform to declare their candidates there. What is this? This is a legal loot of public money,” he said adding “They are doing these types of illegal activities with impunity and they remain exposed.”
“How is it possible for any political party to make any government organization to enable them to have a party rally? It is a crime. They (BJP) have to refund the money,” Sangma added.
Admitting that the CBI is like a cage parrot, the chief minister said that there are instances which indicate that the authorities in Delhi are trying to also utilize agencies not just the CBI but many other authorities.
“There can be a legal suppression and oppression and a crime is committed by misusing a legal authority. I have seen it,” he said while again referring to the BJP celebrating its 3-year of being in the government.
The CBI has booked Meghalaya’s PWD minister Ampareen Lyngdoh and state’s Additional Chief Secretary P S Thangkhiew over alleged manipulation of score sheets in the recruitment of teachers in 2008-09.
The CBI has acted on the orders of Meghalaya High Court, registering the FIR under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy, forgery, criminal breach of trust against Lyngdoh, who was the education minister at the time of the alleged scam and Thangkhiew, a 1984-batch IAS officer, who was the then principal secretary education.
Asked, the chief minister said that the case related to the scam has also gone to the Supreme Court and it has also fixed a date (for hearing on the matter).
According to him, in the process, as a sequel to the order of the Meghalaya High Court, these few things are unfolding.
Maintaining that law will take its own course, Sangma however said that the concerned minister and the officer will know how to defend themselves and prove to the world that they are innocent as the law provides.
“So we need to have complete faith in the judiciary system. There can be allegations; there can be such cases as that is what happens when you go to the field and work you will have scratches. But they will proof themselves as innocent in due course of time,” he said.
The chief minister however refused to comment further on the case citing it is still subjudice as the matter is pending before the Court.
Whether the development would affect the Congress and other parties whose MLAs have also been named in the CBI report, Sangma however said the law will take its own course.
“Let the whole process be allowed to proceed as per law of the land,” he said.
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