Jammu: A Congress leader in Jammu and Kashmir has accused a minister from his own party of being corrupt.
Former social welfare minister Abdul Gani Vakil, in a letter to Public Health Engineering Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din, released on Saturday night, alleged there were cases of corruption within the latter's department.
Vakil alleged that corruption cases were pending against the minister in the "State Accountability Commission (SAC) and a land grabbing case" was going on against him in the high court.
Vakil, a loyalist of union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, also alleged that "various scams were surfacing from time to time in the public health engineering and irrigation departments". A copy of the hard-hitting letter was sent to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
However, Mohi-ud-Din, a confidant of Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmad Patel, called it a conspiracy against him.
"Vakil wanted the transfer of some engineers and other staff in the public health engineering and irrigation departments after having taken bribes from them. I did not oblige him, hence this tirade. He has been trying to blackmail other ministers too," Mohi-ud-Din told IANS.
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