Imphal: The N Biren Singh government in Manipur has started to work on its key poll promise of probing corruption cases and alleged scams in the state.
Quick on the heels of four Congress legislators switching over to the party, the BJP-led coalition government decided to ask the CBI to probe the alleged irregularities in several projects under the Manipur Development Society (MDS), a government agency formed during the previous Congress regime.
"My government has zero tolerance towards corruption. We repeatedly tried to find out about where certain fund in certain accounts of this society has gone. We got some hints on misappropriation and we wanted that a central agency should probe it," Chief Minister N Biren Singh told NDTV.
"Even if some people who have come from other parties to BJP are found guilty we will act on them. We are following the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fighting corruption in the hardest way," Mr Singh added.
"While I welcome the decision of the state government to ask for a CBI in the MDS scam, I am sceptical if they would do the same for all the irregularities reported during the previous regime because there are many who were previously with the Congress," RK Premjit Singh told NDTV.
Quick on the heels of four Congress legislators switching over to the party, the BJP-led coalition government decided to ask the CBI to probe the alleged irregularities in several projects under the Manipur Development Society (MDS), a government agency formed during the previous Congress regime.
"My government has zero tolerance towards corruption. We repeatedly tried to find out about where certain fund in certain accounts of this society has gone. We got some hints on misappropriation and we wanted that a central agency should probe it," Chief Minister N Biren Singh told NDTV.
"Even if some people who have come from other parties to BJP are found guilty we will act on them. We are following the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fighting corruption in the hardest way," Mr Singh added.
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"While I welcome the decision of the state government to ask for a CBI in the MDS scam, I am sceptical if they would do the same for all the irregularities reported during the previous regime because there are many who were previously with the Congress," RK Premjit Singh told NDTV.
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