Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna announced that the residents of Sisona, Medpur, Bagowali and Rampur located in the Rampur crossing area in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh will be taken on Char Dham Yatra by the Uttarakhand Government.
The CM said this while paying homage at the Rampur Tiraha memorial to those who lost their lives in the Rampur Tiraha incident during the Uttarakhand Statehood movement on the anniversary of this incident.
Paying tribute to those who lost their lives in the shooting incident, Bahuguna said that the sacrifice of the Statehood activists will always be remembered by the people.
“The nation marks the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and lB Shastri on October 2 but on this day in 1994, the cruelty shown to Statehood activists at Rampur Tiraha also makes is a black day. Uttarakhand will remain grateful to the residents of the neighbouring villages who supported the activists during this time,” said the CM while announcing that the villagers will soon be taken on Char Dham Yatra by Uttarakhand Government which will arrange two buses for the purpose.
Speaking about the recent disaster in Uttarakhand, he said that about 1,000 persons from UP had also gone missing in this calamity which had also damaged tourism in the State. He recalled that Uttarakhand was created after a proposal to the effect was passed unanimously in the UP Assembly.
Irrigation and Disaster Management minister Yashpal Arya said that working for the development of Uttarakhand would be the real tribute to those who lost their lives in the Statehood movement.
leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Ajay Bhatt appreciated the decision of Uttarakhand government to provide Rs 10 lakh each for constructing community centres in the four villages around Rampur crossing.
He said that stopping the continued migration of people from the mountainous regions of the State still remains a major challenge.
Earlier, the CM visited the Statehood martyrs memorial in Dehradun and paid tributes there. Addressing the statehood activists there, Bahuguna said that the State was aware of their problems and the Cabinet would take decision and facilitate action on many of their demands.