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JAMIR GIVES CLEAN CHIT TO SUBBA 

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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT Published 16.09.99, 12:00 AM
Guwahati, Sept. 16 :     Senior Congress leader and Nagaland chief minister S.C. Jamir today gave a clean chit to controversial Assam MP Mani Kumar Subba, alleged to be the kingpin of the Rs 30,000-crore lottery scandal in Nagaland. Jamir said, ?As far as we are concerned, there has been no scam. The comptroller and auditor-general made some mistakes in his calculations fuelling reports that a huge amount of public money had been siphoned off.?? He, however, ruled out a CBI probe saying the public accounts committee of the state Assembly was looking into the matter. The state had received only Rs 12,000 crore in 35 years as plan and non-plan funds from the Centre, he said. ?Had such a huge amount of money come from lotteries, we would not have sought a single penny from the Centre,? Jamir said. The controversial lottery baron has filed his nominations for the Tezpur Lok Sabha seat in Assam. The Congress high command took ?a long time? to decide to re-nominate him from the seat because of the allegations against him. Thrust with the second election in less than one-and-a-half years, the Congress, according to party sources, decided to fall back on Subba?s swollen coffers. The controversial Congress leader, however, said it was ?not my money power that the party had respected but the wishes of the people of Tezpur,? from where he was elected last year. Initially it was reported that party president Sonia Gandhi would decide his case. She, however, left it to senior leader A.K. Anthony. Finally, CWC member Pranab Mukherjee announced it was PCC president Tarun Gogoi who had selected Subba. Subba won the last elections defeating I.P. Hazarika of the BJP and Kartik Hazarika of the AGP. Prior to the elections, the BJP candidate had alleged that Subba was not an Indian citizen. He claimed that Subba had been refused enrolment as a voter from the Sikkim?s 17 Central Pendum Assembly constituency in 1985 since he was a citizen of Nepal.    
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