Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik broke the silence 15 days after the charge sheet was filed in the corruption case related to the Kiru Hydropower Project of Jammu and Kashmir.
Malik is admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi since 11 May. He denied allegations of corruption through posts on X on Saturday. Said ‘I have been hospitalized for the last one month and struggling with the problem of kidney.’
He told, ‘The day after tomorrow I was fine but today I had to shift to ICU again. My condition is becoming very serious. Whether I live or not, I want to tell my countrymen the truth. If I had wealth today, I would have undergone treatment in a private hospital. In the case in which I want to trap me, I had canceled the tender myself, I told the Prime Minister myself.
On May 22, the CBI filed a charge sheet against 5 people including Satyapal Malik in the corruption case related to the Kiru Hydropower Project in Jammu and Kashmir. It is accused of disturbing the civil works contract worth about Rs 2,200 crore.
The CBI raided Satyapal Malik’s hideout on 22 February 2024 on the same matter. Also raid at 29 other locations in Delhi
Satyapal said- ₹ 150 crore bribe was offered
When I was a governor, I was offered a bribe of 150 crores at that time. Like my political guru farmer Messiah Messiah Late Chaudhary Charan Singh ji, I continued to work honestly. My faith never deteriorated.
When I was a governor, the peasant movement was going on, I raised the demand of farmers without political greed. Women stayed with him in the wrestlers’ movement. Raised the case of the martyred soldiers in the Pulwama attack.
The government is looking for excuses to implicate me in a false charge sheet by showing fear of CBI. In the case in which I want to trap me, I had canceled the tender myself, I myself told the Prime Minister and after telling them I canceled the tender myself, after my transfer, this tender was done with the signature of another.
I want to tell the government and government agencies that I am from the farmer community, I am neither afraid nor going to bow down. The government put full strength to discredit me. The truth is that after getting a chance to serve very big positions in a long political life in long political life more than 50 years, I am still living in a room house and also in debt.
