Hyderabad, May 30: The Lok Satta Party today wholeheartedly welcomed the Telugu Desam Party’s demand that the State and Union Governments enact a law providing for attachment of ill-gotten wealth of politicians.
The TDP had adopted a resolution to this effect at its just concluded Mahanadu here.
Party President Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, now in the US, said in a statement circulated here that the TDP demand was heartening. Dr JP, who circulated a draft Bill to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act among all legislature parties, had already requested TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu to take the initiative as Leader of the Opposition to convene an all-party meeting to consider the Bill and move it in the Assembly, if the Government did not come forward.
Dr JP pointed out that the Bill specifically envisages a key role to the Leader of the Opposition in all appointments of senior officials of the Anti Corruption Bureau.
Dr JP appealed to Chief Minister K Rosaiah to view corruption from a non-partisan angle and eliminate it by creating the requisite institutional mechanisms. In his connection, he recalled Mr Rosaiahs recent call to the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to be stern in dealing with irregularities and corruption and advising it ‘to command peoples respect and strike terror in the hearts of the corrupt’. Dr JP hoped that Mr Rosaiah would walk his talk by taking the initiative to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act.
——Agencies