Naveen
Patnaik, Chief Minister has not only patronized and promoted corruption but groomed,
nourished and nurtured corrupt political leaders and bureaucrats in Odisha
He
has also destroyed all anti-corruption
mechanisms in the state.
Propaganda about “ Naveen Patnaik is transparent and intolerant to corruption” is a paid media induced
campaign floated by corrupt bureaucrats to keep his image clean in the public domain. So that they can
keep unhesitatingly continue their loot
of state resources and State exchequer which is going on ,
exposed under RTI and Dr. Damodar Rout.
Dear friends
Let me cite two examples to justify my above allegations
against Chief Minister.
1. Directorate of Vigilance functioning
under direct control of Chief Minister is one of the agencies having mandate to
investigate into allegation of corruption, irregularities against Govt. officials. But investigation into any corruption by the
state vigilance requires prior sanction of the Chief Minister. Within last 10 years, a number of cases of
corruption and scams has been filed in the State Vigilance which are pending for investigation , as Chief Minister has refused to give sanction. For example, Dal Scam which is one of the
mega scams involving loot of Rs. 700 crores by top IAS officers including Mr.
V. Pandian was suppressed at the direction of Chief Minister. Similarly,
complaint cases on OSCB Scam, OMFED Scam has been suppressed by the State
Vigilance.
While filling complaints of
corruption and irregularities, the complainants were filling RTI applications to the office of
Director, Vigilance to track their
complaints and action taken by the
State Vigilance. When the inaction and failure of office of
Vigilance to enquire into allegation of
corruption was exposed under RTI, the
Chief Minister took overnight
decision to keep directorate of
Vigilance out of purview of RTI Act in 2015.
Since then, the people who are filling
corruption cases are in dark whether any inquiry is going on or not. This was one of biggest
strategies of Naveen Patnaik to suppress the
corruption.
2.
Institution
of Lokpal and lokayukta is farce
The office of lokpal constituted under the
Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 1995 is
another body empowered to enquire into allegation of corruption and irregularities
in State Government. A retired Judge of High Court is appointed as Lokpal of
the State. Though it is a toothless
body, but the Lokpal acts upon and conducts
inquiry into allegation of corruption made by anybody
in the state. The Lokpal has done
outstanding work in terms of submitting fantastic inquiry report on Vedant
University and Sanjeeb Marik case. In 2013, after death of the sitting Lokpal, Chief Minister did not appoint anybody in
this post which is still vacant. The
office of Lokpal is defunct in the
state.
Similarly, after enactment of
the Lokpal & Lokayukta Act in the centre,
Chief Minister took much
credit as first state in the country passing Odisha Lokayukta Bill in Feb. 2014
reinforcing his commitment to
fight out corruption through constitution
of the Lokayukta in the state.
Though the president of
India gave assent to the Bill
in January , 2015, Chief
Minister did not take any steps to notify
the implementation of the Act nor constitute the Lokayukta. After intervention of the Supreme
Court, the State Government on 7th July, 2018 has notified
the enforcement of the Lokayukta in official gazette, but not yet made any
Rules for constitution of Search Committee and
Selection committee ( information obtained under RTI).
These are the examples how Naveen Patnaik does not want any inquiry of corruption. Naveen patnaik has made all anti-corruption mechanism
defunct in our state.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 14.9.18
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