Habong Peying, the North East in-charge
of the Aam Admi Party, has accused both Chief Minister Pawan Chamling
and Opposition leader PS Golay of being corrupt. Peying, a former
Information Commissioner from Arunachal Pradesh, is in Gangtok to
officially launch the AAP in Sikkim with the objective of giving the
people a corruption-free government.
“PS Golay’s cries for eradication of
corruption from the state are futile as he himself is sunk in
corruption,” said Peying. “He has remained a part of the corrupt
government headed by the chief minister. How can he make Sikkim
corruption free when he himself is drowning deep in corruption?” The AAP
leader today formed an eight-member ad-hoc committee and it has been
assigned to galvanise the ‘aam admi’ of the state to support the AAP for
expanding participatory democracy in the state. Addressing a press
conference later, Peying said: “Sikkim is being governed by the SDF-led
government for the past 20 years, but the common man here is not happy
as there has been no real development and only rampant corruption.”
Peying added: “The AAP is the only
alternative to the Sikkim Democratic Front to make the state
corruption-free and usher in participatory democracy.” He informed the
AAP will contest both the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the
state. The eight-member committee consists of leaders from the Sikkim
Liberation People’s Party (SLPP) that is now defunct. Former SLPP leader
Kaushal Rai, now the AAP’s state coordinator, said: “As our ideologies
and views are similar to those of the AAP, we decided to dissolve the
SLPP and enter the AAP fold.”(EOI)