Itanagar: BJP on Saturday demanded for formation of a high-power committee to investigate the alleged financial mismanagement by the Nabam Tuki-led Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh.
"Time and again we have been demanding the state government to bring out a white paper on the state's financial health and the recent revelation made by one of the senior Congress MLA about the financial mismanagement by the state government speaks volume on rampant corruption in the state," party's state unit chief Tai Tagak said.
Former Finance Minister and senior Congress MLA Kalikho Pul, who was expelled from the party on charges of anti-party activities, recently in a press conference alleged financial embezzlement by the state government to the tune of Rs 299.32 crore of central fund against relief and rehabilitation schemes in the past four years.
"Corruption has become a cancerous disease in the state with no developmental activities for which the law and order situation has been deteriorating day by day," Tagak alleged and added that a large chunk of development fund had been siphoned off by the Congress government.
Referring to the sudden dissolution of the state assembly on February last year and recommending for simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state, the BJP president said that the midnight exercise was done before six months of the expiry of the Assembly to hide the financial mismanagement.
"We are demanding for accountability in the financial management of the state and the government cannot run away from its responsibilities. The government has to come clear on the fund misappropriated before the people," Tagak added.
