September 20, 2012: In tune with the nationwide campaign protesting the allegedly faulty allocation of coal blocks, the Nagaland State Unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJP Youth Wing, BJYM) has sent a letter to the officers in charge of the North and South Kohima Police Stations, filing an F.I.R. “under relevant sections” against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for “his prima facie role in the coal scam”. This, as per the note, has cost the state exchequer losses “to the tune of Rs. 1, 86, 000 Crore”.
The letter written by President of the BJYM, Nagaland State Unit, Lima Longchar, was received on September20 by Officer-in-Charge of both police stations in Kohima. It stated that “the policy of allotment of coal blocks on competitive bids was formulated on June 28, 2004. It was implemented on February 2, 2012 by issuing a notification only. More than 8 years have been wasted to implement this policy in order to arbitrarily select 142 entrepreneurs.”
Bringing into question the allotment of 142 coal blocks to private entrepreneurs, “who are businessmen not actual users”, over these 8 years, the BJPYM has asserted that not only no legal or environmental permissions were obtained for most of these coal blocks, the mining of coal was “negligible during the period from 2004 to 2012”. More importantly, it has been pointed out that the Prime Minister was the coal minister for five of these eight years, from July 2004 to May 2009. Terming this a “burning example of national loot”, the Prime Minister has been held responsible for “the loss due to political and administrative mess as well muddle done at his end”.
-TME
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