The working president of Uttarakhand Rajya Andolankari Samman Parishad, Dhirendra Pratap said that the Bharatiya Janata Party State chief spokesman Munna Singh Chauhan be booked under relevant section of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly spreading rumours regarding the financial condition of the State. Stressing that the State Government is fiscally fit, Pratap said that preparations had been completed for facilitating the disbursal of salaries to all the State Government employees in the first week of December.
Addressing the media at the Vidhan Sabha media centre here on Tuesday, Pratap accused Chauhan of spreading “anti-state false rumours” about the financial condition of the state and demanded that the BJP State chief spokesman be booked immediately under IPC section 500. Pratap said, “Chauhan spread rumours against the state government. The financial condition of the state is fully fit with preparations also having been completed for disbursal of the salaries to all State employees in the first week of December.”
Issuing the first installment of the pension money for statehood activists on Tuesday, he informed that a total amount of Rs 97.50 lakh had been issued to various districts for this purpose. The remaining amount for pension to statehood activists was also slated to be issued today but could not be done so due to strike in some of the districts. This amount will be issued on another working day of the current week, he said. Pratap went on to aver that the statehood activists were on top of the state government’s work agenda.
Pratap further elaborated that out of the first installment of Rs 97.50 lakh issued on Tuesday towards pension of statehood activists, Rs 50.50 lakh has been allocated to Dehradun district, Rs 2.75 lakh to Rudraprayag district, Rs 15,00,000 to Uttarkashi district, Rs 6.50 lakh to Tehri district, Rs 4.25 lakh to Almora district, Rs 75,000 to Bageshwar district, Rs 25,000 to Pithoragarh district, Rs 1.50 lakh to Champawat district, Rs 50,000 to Haridwar district, Rs 2.25 lakh to Chamoli district, Rs 25,000 to Nainital district and Rs 6.50 lakh to Udham Singh Nagar district.
