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Ahead of KAAC polls, several organisations demand high level probe against council chief

Ahead of KAAC polls, several organisations demand high level probe against council chief

India Blooms News Service | | 29 Apr 2017, 01:43 pm
Guwahati, Apr 29 (IBNS): Ahead of polls of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council ( KAAC), several civil and students organisations in Assam's hills district Karbi Anglong have demanded a high level probe into the multi crore rupees scam under the council and against the present Chief Executive Member of the council.

The organisations also sought an intervention by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal into the scam as they alleged several members of the council are siphoning off most of development money.


The organizations said that, the council members led by present CEM Tuliram Ronghang had allegedly siphoned off most of development money of the council without implementing development schemes.


In last year, most council members, including CEM Tuliram Ronghang, who were elected to the council on Congress tickets, had joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the saffron party formed its first government in Assam.


"If BJP will again favour them, then it will be give license them to loot public money again. People of Karbi Anglong have been deprived from development in the past couple of decades and now want only development," a leader of a farmer group in Karbi Anglong said.


The farmer group Krishak Sramik Kalyan Parishad had filed a case against the council chief Tuliram Ronghang, in Assam police CID, for allegedly siphoning off crore of rupees in the name of implementing irrigation projects in the hills district, .


The farmer leader said that all projects existed only on paper.


(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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