Instead of properly replying to the questions raised by Kalaignar in ‘Murasoli’ on April 4, the Transport Minister had issued an undignified statement as if Kalaignar was writing cock and bull stories in “Murasoli” due to political animosity and they were like Satan preaching scriptures. If somebody in the DMK issued such undignified statement Kalaignar will immediately call him and condemn hm. But the misfortune of the state is that it has a Chief Minister who relishes, supports and encourage her ministers writing below standard about a former Chief Minister.
If the charges leveled by Kalaignar were far from truth he should directly answer them. Kalaignar had after all raised the truths contained in the deposition of one Gokul in the court; what is the answer of the minster for that? Where is Gokul, who deposed in the court, now? What is the reply of the minster to the open charge leveled by BJP State President Pon. Radhakrishnan linking the minster to illicit arrack gang? For all these questions raised by Kalaignar, the minister had said that he had answered for all these in court and to the public.
If he had answered in court and in public forum that would have been published in dailies; but no daily published his reply? What is the answer? Why the minster is afraid of openly telling them in his statement placed in the Assembly?
When the DMK legislative party leader Thalapathi M.K.Stalin on March 28, tried to elicit details about irregularities in the award of contract for acquiring GPS ticketing machines for government transport corporations, he was not permitted to speak. In his statement in the House, the minister had said that although this issue was not taken up on that day, on the directive of the CM it was taken up on the next day as special call attention motion.
To the specific questions raised by Kalaignar, “when was the company, for which tender orders were issued by the ADMK regime, was started? Whether they have three years’ experience as per the tender condition?”, the reply of the minister stated, “the experience of Ingenerie Technologies Solutions Private Limited was studied and assessed as 7 years and 5 months by the tender study committee and hence the tender condition of three years’ experience was not violated”. But the same minister while replying in the Assembly on 1.4.2013 said, “The company with seven years’ experience which was till then functioning in the name of Mango Healthcare Solutions Limited, Hyderabad was registered through Indian Companies Act in the name of Ingenerie Technologies Solution Private Limited, Hyderabad” and this was published in their (ADMK) official daily. Nobody denies that Mango Healthcare Solutions company has seven years’ experience. But having accepted in the Assembly itself by the minister that Ingenerie Technologies company, to which tender was awarded, was only now registered through Indian Companies Act, the minister in the present statement has said that the new company also has seven years’ experience. In particular, the tender condition is that the company seeking tender should have three years’ experience in the work for which the tender is issued.
The Minster had stated that previous experience was not insisted for the tenders issued during the DMK rule. Even when free colour TVs were distributed, global tender was issued and the tenders were finalised in the presence of representatives of all parties in the Assembly, which the minister does not seem to remember.
The allegation of irregularities in the awarding of contract for transport corporations was not made by Kalaignar or Thalapathi M.K.Stalin, but an all-India newspaper ‘The Times of India’. Why the minister, instead of replying to the daily, should turn his ire on Kalaignar? On 1.4.2013 the minister told the House that cases would be filed against the daily, its publisher and the reporter; but even after one week, no news about the case has come. Why?
Many reports about the transport department, like collection of money from owners of omni buses, money transactions in buying of buses. The true details about those reports should be extensively enquired into in future. The truths about this man should come out. The world should be informed about the fate of missing ‘Gokul’.
If the charges leveled by Kalaignar were far from truth he should directly answer them. Kalaignar had after all raised the truths contained in the deposition of one Gokul in the court; what is the answer of the minster for that? Where is Gokul, who deposed in the court, now? What is the reply of the minster to the open charge leveled by BJP State President Pon. Radhakrishnan linking the minster to illicit arrack gang? For all these questions raised by Kalaignar, the minister had said that he had answered for all these in court and to the public.
If he had answered in court and in public forum that would have been published in dailies; but no daily published his reply? What is the answer? Why the minster is afraid of openly telling them in his statement placed in the Assembly?
When the DMK legislative party leader Thalapathi M.K.Stalin on March 28, tried to elicit details about irregularities in the award of contract for acquiring GPS ticketing machines for government transport corporations, he was not permitted to speak. In his statement in the House, the minister had said that although this issue was not taken up on that day, on the directive of the CM it was taken up on the next day as special call attention motion.
To the specific questions raised by Kalaignar, “when was the company, for which tender orders were issued by the ADMK regime, was started? Whether they have three years’ experience as per the tender condition?”, the reply of the minister stated, “the experience of Ingenerie Technologies Solutions Private Limited was studied and assessed as 7 years and 5 months by the tender study committee and hence the tender condition of three years’ experience was not violated”. But the same minister while replying in the Assembly on 1.4.2013 said, “The company with seven years’ experience which was till then functioning in the name of Mango Healthcare Solutions Limited, Hyderabad was registered through Indian Companies Act in the name of Ingenerie Technologies Solution Private Limited, Hyderabad” and this was published in their (ADMK) official daily. Nobody denies that Mango Healthcare Solutions company has seven years’ experience. But having accepted in the Assembly itself by the minister that Ingenerie Technologies company, to which tender was awarded, was only now registered through Indian Companies Act, the minister in the present statement has said that the new company also has seven years’ experience. In particular, the tender condition is that the company seeking tender should have three years’ experience in the work for which the tender is issued.
The Minster had stated that previous experience was not insisted for the tenders issued during the DMK rule. Even when free colour TVs were distributed, global tender was issued and the tenders were finalised in the presence of representatives of all parties in the Assembly, which the minister does not seem to remember.
The allegation of irregularities in the awarding of contract for transport corporations was not made by Kalaignar or Thalapathi M.K.Stalin, but an all-India newspaper ‘The Times of India’. Why the minister, instead of replying to the daily, should turn his ire on Kalaignar? On 1.4.2013 the minister told the House that cases would be filed against the daily, its publisher and the reporter; but even after one week, no news about the case has come. Why?
Many reports about the transport department, like collection of money from owners of omni buses, money transactions in buying of buses. The true details about those reports should be extensively enquired into in future. The truths about this man should come out. The world should be informed about the fate of missing ‘Gokul’.
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