A MUMBAI-BASED Right to Information (RTI) activist has filed two applications with Kutch police,seeking to register cases of criminal breach of trust and cheating against Chief Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly not keeping promises the latter made during his Sadbhavana mission and Vivekananad Yuva Vikas Parishad programmes last year. Ramesh Joshi,president of Kutch Ladayak Manch (KLM),a Mumbai-registered NGO,filed applications at Mandvi and A Division police stations in Bhuj city on Tuesday. In his application filed with the Mandvi police (a copy is available with The Indian Express),Joshi says that the CM had announced development projects worth Rs 1,265 crore for Kutch during his Sadbahavana mission fast held in Mandvi in February 2012. But in reply to Joshis RTI applications,the state government said that there were no defined rules or guideline about making such announcements. The Chief Minister has breached the trust of the public by making announcement of giving Rs 1,265 crore for the development of the Kutch district as it has till date not received a single rupee out of that announced amount, the application reads. The KLM president filed another application with A Division police station of Bhuj city with a similar plea. Joshi said that during a Vivekananad Yuva Vikas Parishad,a meeting of youth organised in Bhuj in September last year,Modi had announced that the state government would stand as guarantor for youths seeking loan to start businesses. But in reply to our RTI application in July this year,the labour and employment department said that after thorough discussions,the state government had decided not to include the proposal for itself to act as guarantor for youths seeking bank loans in the budget for the year 2012-13, Joshi,who originally hails from Lathedi village in Abdasa taluka of Kutch,has said in the application. This proves that Modi has breached the trust of youth of the state and cheated them, Joshi,who owns a chain of provision stores in Mumbai,said in the application.
