ITANAGAR, Sep 7: The People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) has criticised chief minister Pema Khandu for brushing aside allegations of corruption levelled on him and terming them as “politically motivated”,  adding that the ”chief minister must be confident enough to initiate a systematic and thorough probe of the allegations”.
Any public query on the accountability of the government in power cannot just be brushed aside as politically motivated. It is being observed that for every allegation of gross misappropriations of public money on various high profile cases like the 142 crores power scam, Panchayat Fund Scam and misuse of CAMPA fund, the chief minister tells the complainants to challenge him in Court. This is a very unfortunate precedent developing in the state. The Chief Minister, being the head of the government should be confident enough to initiate systematic and thorough probe of the allegations through different committees headed by retired or sitting judges, the People’s Party of Arunachal said in a statement today.
Citing the movement against corruption spearheaded by a Arunachal Against Corruption which has garnered much media and public attention, the PPA said that corruption as a phenomenon never takes the bottoms up approach but always the top down approach.
“It is unfortunate that the state is bereft of any opposition leader who should have raised these issues of public interest in the Assembly. The people of Arunachal Pradesh must be grateful to any organizations who are taking up the issues of corruption which is growing rampantly in the state,” PPA said.  
The People’s Party of Arunachal also said that simply brushing aside grievous allegations as politically motivated and challenging the complainants to fight it out through expensive court battles doesn't make an accused person clean and honest.
“It is very unfortunate that the cost of litigations in the country has become too expensive for any poor and honest citizens to knock the door of judiciary. Just brushing aside the grievous allegations as politically motivated and challenging the complainants to fight it out through expensive court battles doesn’t make an accused person clean and honest. The onus lies on the chief minister to realise how confident the people of the state are on his continuing leadership of the state,’ the party said.

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