Cong demands effective steps to check corruption in U'khand

In order to curb corruption in the state, Congress in Uttarakhand today asked Chief Minister Harish Rawat to speed up the appointment of the anti-corruption watchdog Lokayukta.
"In the absence of these constitutional authorities, it has become all the more difficult to keep corruption under check," Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay said in a letter to Rawat.
Citing the non-appointments of other key posts of Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioner, he also requested the state government to order judicial probe into all corruption cases unearthed in the state since its creation.
Upadhyay said with the Congress now back in power after the President's Rule, it can initiate steps in that direction.

He also attacked the Centre for toppling a democratically-elected government in the state on the basis of a "so-called sting CD," and asked the Governor K K Paul to provide the original copy of the CD to the party.