Lok Satta Party president, Jayaprakash Narayan on Wednesday demanded the State Government to constitute an independent authority to probe corruption allegations levelled against each other by Chief Minister K. Rosaiah and Telugu Desam president, N. Chandrababu Naidu.
In a statement here, he said that a former judge could head the authority. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) should function under the jurisdiction of the authority and an independent prosecutor drawn from the judiciary should assist it.
He said people were losing faith in political parties, leaders and institutions as unbridled corruption involving thousands of crores of rupees had reached monumental proportions. He urged the Union Government to take steps to constitute a Lok Pal at the national level to go into corruption charges against members of Members of Parliament, Chief Ministers and civil servants whether in office or out of it.
Meanwhile former State BJP president, Bandaru Dattatreya while expressing consternation at the manner in which Mr. Naidu and Mr. Rosaiah accused each other, urged Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to take “sum motu” cognisance of their allegations and institute a CBI inquiry into them.
