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\nImphal, Oct 20 : Governor Gurbhachan Jagat assured representatives of seven Opposition political parties Saturday that the state Government has begun looking into corruption issue and also assured he would initiate for investigation into all graft charges against all the state officials.
\nRepresentatives of seven political parties including Trinamool Congress, CPI, CPM-M, JD-U, MPP (Manipur People\u2019s Party), JD-S and BJP held consultations with Governor Gurbachan Jagat at Raj Bhavan at 12:25 pm .
\nThe meeting with the Governor continued for more than half an hour during which they also discussed the current state of affairs of the state but prominently the issue of corruption, they told newsmen who were waiting for them in front of Raj Bhavan gate after the meeting.
\nRepresentatives of CPI, MPP, JD (U), JD(S), BJP, CPM and AITC submitted a memorandum to the Governor Gurbhachan Jagat today .It was stated that the Legislative Assembly of Manipur is the highest democratic Institution which decides the fate of the people of the state. The sanctity and the prestige of this highest Institute must be preserved and protected at any cost. Unfortunately, it has been noticed and seen for the last few years and more so during the last few months that there are open malpractices, nepotism and corruption in the functioning of the Manipur Legislative Assembly Secretariat.
\nThe local media had already published the detail informations about the malpractices, corruption and nepotism on the recent recruitment of the Assembly staff in different categories on contract basis wherein family members and relatives of Hon\u2019ble Speakers and Hon\u2019ble Deputy Speaker even with fabricated documents. These are very unfair and unethical behaviours of the dignitories and officials of the Assembly Secretariat. The whole episode needs to be thoroughly investigated.
\nThe repeated revelations of the Tehelka and subsequent publications by local medias on the Rs. 224 crore scam in Loktak Lake Development where undue favours and violation of CPWD norms mark biggest ever scam have really shocked the people of Mahipur. The K-Pro Infra Works Private Limited Company was awarded the work without observing CPWD norms. The single bidder company entered into a joint venture with Hyderabad based Progressive Construction Limited (PCL) for cleaning up of Phumdis (Biomass) from Loktak Lake. Interestingly, PCL is founded and controlled by a Congress MPfrom Andhra Pradesh, K. Sambasiva Rao, it is learnt. Further, another exposure on the misuse of Rs. 50 croresfrom the ICDS funds of the Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Manipur is a matter of great concern for all of us. Many more such kind of misuse of Govt. funds are expected to be revealed in the near future.
\nGovernor was urged to consider and take a serious view on this matter and initiate appropriate actions on these issues.
\nCPI Manipur state unit secretary Dr M Nara, Manipur JD-U president M Tombi, CPM secretary Sarat Salam, MPP president S Umananda, BJP president Sh Shantikumar, Manipur Trinamool Congress president RK Sivananda and JD-S working president Manihar Goswami were present at the meeting.
\nThey further expressed their urge to the Governor for setting up of an inquiry committee consisting of all the political parties in the state so that all the cases of corruption are investigated through it.
\n\u201cThe Naga political issue was not included at the meeting for the simple reason that we are planning to raise it in the upcoming winter session of Parliament and for this, we will prepare to send a delegation of the seven political parties to New Delhi soon ahead of the session,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n