SHILLONG, JUNE 20: Lone NPP Rajya Sabha MP Dr WR Kharlukhi on Thursday has has lodged a complaint with the cyber crime cell of Meghalaya Police against a youtuber for tarnishing his image and alleging corruption in the implementation of the MP Scheme.
Speaking to reporters, Kharlukhi said that he is open to any kind of investigation and would resign as MP if there is any corruption found in the implementation of his MP scheme.
“I have lodged a complaint with the cyber crime police station against a youtuber ‘RS Kharbani’ for alleging that I am corrupt and there is corruption in the implementation of my MP scheme,” he said.
“If anybody has proof and if anybody comes and give it to the press that I have taken such and such amount, I myself will write to the government and ask for a CBI enquiry and I am ready to go to jail…You can to go the villages, if they said at least this work was not done by them, it was done by Dr Kharlukhi’s man, I will resign that day (as MP),” the MP said.
The former NPP state president said he only started getting the MP scheme for 2022-2023 because there was no scheme given during the Covid pandemic. That time, he would recommend the schemes to the nodal officer (deputy commissioner), who would then send the same to the block development officers (BDOs) for releasing the fund to the beneficiaries that include village dorbars and organizations.
However the system changed for 2023-2024. Instead of the rural development department in Delhi, the scheme was released by the parliament directly to the district officers and to the BDOs, he said.
Kharlukhi said that he has fully implemented the Rs 5 crore sanctioned under MP scheme for 2022-2023 while the scheme for 2024, it has only now reached the beneficiaries. The delay was due to the general elections to the Lok Sabha, which were concluded very recently.