Then NEEPCO CVO filed malicious report: Rijiju

Embroiled in a controversy with regard to a power project in Arunachal Pradesh, Union minister Kiren Rijiju today sought to blame the then CVO saying Satish Verma claiming he had filed a "malicious" report after being transferred from NEEPCO.
The junior home minister also said Congress has made a grave mistake by raising the issue as most of the affected people were its workers or zila parishad members of the party.
Accusing Verma of sending "fraudulently" his "malicious" report about alleged corruption 10 days after his transfer, he said the Gujarat-cadre IPS officer and the then North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) Chief Vigilance Officer wrote a back-dated letter in this regard and took away all the documents from the office of the mini-PSU.

"Look at the character of this CVO officer, who had sent this malicious report. He was transferred on July 5, and 10 days after his transfer, he fraudulently writes letter back-dated and then takes away all the documents from the office of NEEPCO. So, that shows what kind of officer and how fraudulent he was," the minister said.
Accusing Verma of acting "illegally", he said his recommendation letter was related to only small-time local works which run into few lakhs or thousands and Congress' claim of Rs 450 crore scam was exposed as the amount involved was not even one-tenth of it.

Now if there is a debate on this, then Congress will be exposed further, he added.

Local people, mostly Congress workers, were actually benefiting from this but now they are also going to quit the party in protest against it raising the issue, he claimed.
"The Congress party is badly exposed. Those contractors and small-time sub-contractors, those who had met me, they were all Congress zila parishad members, anchal samiti members and Congress workers. So, they are very upset. That is why I said Congress has made a grave mistake by raising this issue and pointing fingers at me," Rijiju said.

"Congress will repent for lifetime and it will be wiped out from my state and the local few remaining Congress workers are also going to quit the party in protest against it raising this issue which was actually benefiting the local people who were mostly Congress workers. So the Congress is really going to look back at what mistake they have committed," he said.
The NEEPCO project, which is nearing completion, includes two dams over Bichom and Tenga rivers.
Asked about action on Verma, he said he cannot comment on the action because there are official norms.
"Officials will take due action, because if somebody has misused the NEEPCO authority, who has been transferred out and misused the position, action will be taken as per norms," he added.