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Five days after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi criticised the Maharashtra government’s rejection of the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry report, the State Cabinet revised its stand and accepted the report on Thursday.
However, the Action Taken Report (ATR), issued upon acceptance of the report recommends no action against the six politicians indicted by the Commission for extending “political patronage” to the controversial building project on the grounds that there were “no allegations of criminality” against them.
The 12 IAS officers named for violating All India Service Conduct Rules will be proceeded against. The Commission’s report indicted four former Congress Chief Ministers, including Sushilkumar Shinde, now Union Home Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Ashok Chavan and Shivajirao Nilangekar Patil.
It had also indicted two NCP Ministers of State, Sunil Tatkare and Rajesh Tope. In the case of the latter two, the ATR goes a step further and says they had not dealt with any files related to the building. The Bharatiya Janata Party was quick to denounce this.
अरुण जेटली का लेख
कांग्रेस के साथ-साथ भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने भी 'आप' परिघटना से कुछ सीखने का निश्चय किया है। भारतीय जनता पार्टी की वैबसाइट पर अरुण जेटली का लेख गुरुवार को प्रकाशित हुआ है जिसमें उन्होंने लिखा है कि हाल के चुनाव परिणामों का संदेश साफ है कि भारत में वोटर की अपेक्षाएं बढ़ रहीं हैं। हमें इन परिणामों से सबक सीखने चाहिए। इस लेख के अंशः-
Is 2014 going to be substantially different in terms of India’s polity and governance? The bar of expectation of Indian people has been raised high. It is not merely the Indian middle class which is the strong opinion maker. There is additionally a substantial aspirational class in India whose level of expectations is entirely different. They are going to judge Indian politics, persons in public life and the quality of governance harshly. They will vote in governments and vote out governments if they found them not meeting popular aspirations. पूरा लेख यहाँ पढ़ें
