Claiming that Bharatiya Janata Party will surely taste victory in the upcoming general elections, BJP State chief Tirath Singh Rawat announced on Thursday that the names of candidates for lok Sabha elections would be declared by the end of this weekend.
He said that candidates having clean image and who could comfortably win the seat would be given preference by the party. Addressing the media persons at State party office here, Rawat said that the members of the parliamentary board of the party were having series of meeting for finalising the names of the candidates for the general elections. He said that most suitable candidate would be contested by the party with an aim to win the elections.
“The party workers had series of conclaves in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand in order to sensitize masses on the party’s ideology,” said Rawat, adding that the party activists had been urged to do intense door-to-door campaigning in the length and breadth of the State so as to win the elections.
Attacking the Congress-led State Government over the delay and inimical dissemination of portfolios to the Cabinet Ministers, Rawat said the rate of development activities had slower further and the higher parts of the State lacked basic amenities like road, health facilities, potable water etc and further expressed his concern that the State Government was yet to take effective and swift move for redressing the grievances of all those villagers, who faced the brunt of natural calamites in the June, last year. Expressing his antipathy over the corruption in the Government machineries, Rawat also alleged a scam in the State Education department and said that 86 teachers were appointed in the Government-aided schools in Pauri district only and demanded from the State Government to look into the issue.
The BJP chief also alleged that the Cabinet Ministers were fighting for ‘good posts’ and it was hampering the development activities across the State. He also expressed his concern that the State Government had started selling nomination papers before the notification of Panchyat elections in the State.
Rawat said that the party workers have geared up for scheduled general elections and collectively work for the BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. later, Rawat also welcome SS Rawat and Mohan Pal on joining the party. State spokesman Umesh Agarwal, CM Nautiyal, Abhimanyu Kumar, VS Bisht and BJYM state president, Saurabh Thapliyal were also present.