My speech is on record, have not breached MCC guidelines: Taj
Srinagar: Claiming that the senior Congress leader and medical education minister Taj Mohi-ud-din has violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) norms, former senior police officer Raja Aijaz Ali (IPS) Sunday stated that 500 rupees each were given to the participants who attended the rally organized by Taj in Uri on March 9.
However, Taj Mohi-ud-Din denied the charges leveled by Ali, saying that his address to a Congress rally in Uri is recorded and anyone can check the details. According to the statement issued here, Aijaz stated that more than 20 lakh rupees were spent by Congress leader Taj Mohi-ud-Din on a public rally in Uri thus sidelining the guidelines set by the Election Commission of India (ECI). “The people who participated in Taj’s rally on Sunday were all given 500 rupees each and irony is that several participants in the rally were from a single clan.”
Aijaz stated further that when the code of conduct is imposed in any region, no person is permitted to announce any scheme or benefit from the government before the masses and that Taj in his rally blatantly announced the central scheme wherein he stated that 75 thousand rupees will be given to each family for the construction of concrete houses. “This is a clear violation of code of conduct.”
Maintaining that the previous leadership including Mohammad Shafi Uri and Taj Mohi-ud-Din have exploited the people of Uri Socially and politically at large, Aijaz stated that he was compelled by the general masses of the place to enter into active politics otherwise he had no intention for the same. He added that due to the blunders committed by Shafi Uri, Taj Mohi-ud-Din received support in the year 2002. ”Nepotism has engulfed the sacred place like Uri at present. On one hand Shafi Uri destroyed the very basis of the region and on the other – Taj is benefiting his own men through several state and centrally sponsored schemes- hence agonizing the common people.”
The statement reads further that during the past 25 years, the people who claim to represent the Uri people in Legislative assembly and were also active players in state cabinet never benefitted common people and instead preferred partiality and favoritism. Aijaz Ali- the former IPS officer stated that people of Uri in the forthcoming polls will teach both NC and Congress a lesson and that people in the area have fewer opportunities in terms of entrepreneurship, hence are dependent on the government jobs. (KNS)