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Guwahati, April 29 : Ahead of polls of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council ( KAAC), several civil and students organizations in Assam's hills district Karbi Anglong demanded a high level probe into the multi crore rupees scam under the council and against the present Chief Executive Member of the council.
The organizations also sought an intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal into the scam as several members of the council siphoning off most of development money.
The organizations said that, the council members led by present CEM Tuliram Ronghang had allegedly siphoned off most of development money of the council without implementing development schemes.
In last year, most of council members including CEM Tuliram Ronghang, who were elected to the council on Congress tickets had joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the saffron party formed its first government in Assam.
"If BJP will again favour them then it will be given license them to loot public money again. People of Karbi Anglong have deprived from development in past couple of decades and now want only development," a leader of a farmer group in Karbi Anglong said.
A farmer group Krishak Sramik Kalyan Parishad had filed a case against the council Chief Tuliram Ronghang in Assam police CID for allegedly siphoned off crore of rupees in the name of implementing irrigation projects in the hills district, who was in-charge of the irrigation department.
The farmer leader said that, all projects are in exists only on paper and we demanded to conduct a high level probe.
The organizations have asked the people of the hills district to choose right person to the council this time.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
