On the call of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Pritam Singh, Congress members across the State staged demonstrations on issues including price rise, the condition of farmers and deteriorating law and order situation in the State on Monday. Congress members held protests in all the district headquarters and submitted memorandums to the District Magistrate.
In Dehradun, the party members demonstrated outside the Gandhi Park in the presence of leader of opposition in the Vidhan Sabha, Indira Hridayesh, former PCC chief Kishore Upadhyay, party state co in charge Sanjay Kapoor, MlAs, PCC office bearers and workers of the party. A delegation addressed to the Governor of Uttarakhand, Krishan Kant Paul was also submitted by the protesting Congress members on the occasion. In the memorandum, the Congress leaders stated that during its six months in office so far, the Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Uttarakhand had taken various “anti-public” decisions. Price rise is at its peak under the governance of the BJP at the centre and State while the law and order situation in the State has also deteriorated considerably.