Delay Namgyal petitions Supreme Court with corruption allegations against CM and State Govt

GANGTOK, 23 Jan: Now, another petition has reached the Supreme Court of India leveling corruption charges against the Chief Minister and the State government. Delay Namgyal Barfungpa, formerly with the Congress and now vice-president, Sikkim National People’s Party (SNPP), has filed a fresh petition in the apex court which came up for hearing today. He has filed this petition along with two other petitioners.
The Supreme Court in turn, it is informed, has issued notices to the Chief Minister and the State government to respond to the allegations made in the writ petition against them. The response has to be filed within a time period of 4 weeks.
While the petition is fresh, the charges are a repeat of the Congress charges against the state government and the CM. In fact, Mr. Barfungpa, while speaking to NOW! over the phone from New Delhi, stated as much while detailing that he has approached the Supreme Court with allegations of corruption against the state government and the chief minister.
“It’s the same as the CBI corruption cases which the state Congress had filed against the state government and CM and we have asked the apex court to enquire into the corruption cases,” he said.
Mr. Barfungpa further stated that he filed the petition because he wants the corruption charges against the State government to be enquired into.
It may be recalled that the state Congress had also filed a petition against the Chief Minister and the state government leveling accusations of various degrees of corruption and misuse of central government funds. A publication called “Sikkim Burmaloot” had also been released by the State Congress in illustration of its allegations. Following the dismissal of the petition, the Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee approached the Central Bureau of Investigation which is said to have conducted an enquiry. Following that, the State government also set up the Patra Commission to look into the allegations leveled by the state Congress. While the Patra Commission had been conducting hearings on the case, a petition has again been filed in the Sikkim high court challenging the constitution of the Patra Commission itself.