Monday, March 28, 2011

Fwd: [Marxistindia] Left parties memorandum to EC



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: news from the cpi(m) <marxistindia@cpim.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:06 PM
Subject: [Marxistindia] Left parties memorandum to EC
To: marxistindia <marxistindia@cpim.org>


marxistindia
news from the cpi(m)
A Left parties delegation consisting of Nilotpal Basu (Central Secretariat member, CPI-M), D. Raja (MP & National Secretary, CPI), S. P. Tiwari (Central Committee member, AIFB), Dharmendra Verma (Central Committee member, AIFB) and Abani Roy (MP & Secretary, RSP) met the Election Commission of India on March 28, 2011 and submitted the following memorandum.






Dear Sir,



We are constrained to draw your attention to the very serious development  where a Member of Parliament from the Trinamul Congress, Shri K. D. Singh,  was carrying cash amounting to Rs. 57 lakhs.  He was reported to have been traveling on March 24 in a private airplane from Delhi to Guwahati which is a poll-bound state and the Trinamul Congress is contesting a large number of seats.



We are also surprised by his reported claim that this money was legitimately drawn from a bank for his own business purposes.   We are unaware of business activities in the present times which require  such a major volume of cash movement.  We are also surprised that the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) who held Mr. Singh and his associates along with the money and allowed to let him go.  And, most importantly, the money itself  was not confiscated.  We think that this is rather strange because even if the source is known, nobody can vouch for the manner of end use.



In such circumstances, we would like to draw your attention to the ongoing discussion  with the EC bilaterally, as well as, in the all-party  meeting on the subject of use of money power  as a growing electoral malpractice.  It is in the last all-party meeting on March 9, 2011 that the Hon'ble  Commission had observed that any press report about alleged possible misconduct regarding electoral malpractices will be taken  suo moto cognizance of and enquiry  will be ordered forthwith.



Therefore, monitoring of the trail of the money found in the possession of Shri Singh and a thorough enquiry of his whereabouts and activities is urgently called for.



We hope that the EC will act urgently on this very serious development and redeem its commitment of ensuring elections uncontaminated by money power.



eom
_______________________________________________
Marxistindia mailing list
Marxistindia@cpim.org
http://cpim.org/mailman/listinfo/marxistindia_cpim.org
http://www.cpim.org



--
Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/

No comments:

Post a Comment