Aam Aadmi Party today demanded Union minister Kiren Rijiju be sacked for “trying to sweep under the carpet”, the alleged Rs 450-crore power scam in Arunachal Pradesh.
Addressing a press conference, party leader Ashish Khetan said the Minister of State for Home Affairs not only wrote a letter to Power Minister Piyush Goyal to release funds of contractors in state-run North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) project, but also “hid the fact that his brother was a sub-contractor in it”.
Media reports state that Rijiju; his cousin Goboi Rijiju, a contractor in Arunachal Pradesh; and several top officials of NEEPCO, including its Chairman and Managing Director, have been named in a 129-page report by PSU’s Chief Vigilance Officer Satish Verma that alleges corruption in construction of two dams for 600 MW Kameng Hydro Electric Project, one of the biggest hydro-electric projects in the stare.
NEEPC comes under the Union Power Ministry.
