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Corruption main plank of CPI(M)

Special Correspondent

BHUBANESWAR: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to highlight the issues of corruption and problems facing the rural masses during its campaign for the ensuing three-tier panchayat polls in the State.

At a press conference here on Thursday, secretary of the party's State Committee Janardan Pati alleged that Panchayatiraj institutions in the State had emerged as centres of corruption during the Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance Government's rule.

"Large-scale irregularities in the allotment of Indira Awas Yojana houses, old-age pension and corruption in utilisation of funds earmarked for digging of ponds and construction of village makes it clear," Mr. Pati alleged.

Irregularities

Observing that genuine people at the village level were being denied benefits from the developmental schemes, Mr. Pati charged that those in power were also out to make money by allowing others to loot public money, mineral resources and land. The financial irregularities in the Orissa Rural Housing Development Corporation had made it clear that corruption was also rampant at higher echelons of power, he added.

Calling upon the people to vote against the corrupt, Mr. Pati blamed the BJD-BJP government for its failure to provide land to the landless. There were a total of 40 lakh landless people in the State, he said. He also criticised the alliance government for its failure to deal with the problem of unemployment and improving the primary education system in the State.

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