Taking  a dig at the Seva Diwas programme organised by the BJP on Sunday, the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh said that perturbed by its sliding graph the BJP had entered a damage control mode. He said that when the pandemic was at its peak and the destruction prevailed everywhere the BJP and its leaders had isolated themselves.

Singh was speaking after sitting on a fast at the state headquarters of the party here on Sunday.

The protest was organised against poor health services and spiralling prices. He said that the general public is reeling under corruption, price rise and unemployment and BJP by changing the CM has proved that its government has done nothing in the last four and half years in Uttarakhand. Singh said that the state government has failed in tackling the pandemic of Covid- 19 and Black fungus disease. He said that instead of discussing assembly elections slated next year in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand the BJP had discussed ways of controlling the pandemic in its core group. He said that instead of providing relief the state government has hiked the tariff of electricity.

The cooking gas cylinder is costing more than Rs 900, the petrol Rs 95 and diesel Rs 90. Singh said that the ‘Sewa Diwas’ is a mere political stunt and exposes the slander politics of BJP.

Launching into an attack on the Narendra Modi government for playing vaccine diplomacy, the PCC presidents said that the government exported 6.08 Crore vaccines to other countries and now when vaccine shortage has hit the country it is now importing the vaccine. He said that the government should have made adequate arrangements for vaccines before starting the vaccine campaign ( Tika Utsav).  He said that the Union government should have provided the vaccines to the states but it has abdicated this responsibility and has put the onus of getting vaccines on the states. The PCC president said that while 50 percent of the population of many countries has been vaccinated, only 3 percent of the population is vaccinated in India.

Former MLA Rajkumar, general secretary (organisation) Vijay Saraswat, vice presidents Surya Kant Dhasmana, Aryendra Sharma, Lal Chand Sharma, Navin Payal, Pratima Singh and other Congress leaders attended the protest.