Wednesday, 07 September 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Comparing the Vidhan Sabha with Gangotri from where the holy Ganga emerges, former chief minister, Trivendra Singh Rawat has said that there is an urgent need to keep this Gangotri of political and legislative power free from the pollution of corruption. “ There is a hope for keeping the Ganga clean as long as Gangotri is clean and similar is the case with the Vidhan Sabha also which is the law-making body of our State,’’ said the former chief minister while talking with The Pioneer on Tuesday.
On the allegation of corruption and appointments of favor made in the Vidhan Sabha, the former CM opined that the crime of those who made these appointments is many times more than those who got these jobs. He said that the file for making appointments in Vidhan Sabha was brought before him when he was chief minister. Rawat said that he made a noting on the file that the appointments should be done in a transparent manner and should be done by the public service commission. It is pertinent to mention here that the ad -hoc appointment of 72 employees was made in the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha after Trivendra Singh Rawat was removed from the position of the CM of the State.
Meanwhile, the expert committee constituted by the speaker Ritu Khanduri to investigate the allegations of illegal appointments and promotions in the Vidhan Sabha has started its work. The committee headed by former principal secretary Dilip Kumar Kotia has been asked to submit its report in a period of one month. The other two members of the committee are Surendra Singh Rawat and AS Nayal.
The expert committee would investigate the appointments made in the Vidhan Sabha in two phases, in the first phase the appointments done from the year 2012 till date would be investigated, and in the second the appointments from the year 2000 to 2011 would be checked.
