After expressing his gratitude for sanctioning lokayukta Bill by the President of India, BJP State Chief Tirath Singh Rawat said that the party activists will stage Statewide protests if the Congress-led State Government fails to implement it at earliest.
He said that the Bill was drafted during the BJP regime in the State under the leadership of former Uttarakhand Chief Minister, Maj Gen (Retd) BC Khanduri and President of India was also urged to pass for keeping a tab on the corruption cases in the Government departments.
While addressing the mediapersons in a press conference held at State party office, BJP State Chief Tirath Singh Rawat said that Congress led State Government should take effective measures to implement it in order to curtail the corruption in the Government offices.
“If anyone is found guilty of corruption, then life imprisonment can be imposed on him,” he said, adding that Uttarakhand became the first State of the country to pass such Bill to keep a tab on the corrupt Government servants and public representatives.
After expressing his concern over the issue that the Congress-led State Government has quashed the beneficiary projects and schemes including transfer policy and citizen charter framed with an aim to extend maximum benefit to residents, Rawat said that party activists will stage Statewide protest if the State Government does not take effective measures to implement it.
later, Rawat also cornered the Congress led State Government for not taking effective measures for redressing the grievances of those displaced villagers, who faced the brunt of the natural calamites. State Spokesman, Umesh Agarwal and Prakash Suman Dhyani and Abhimanyu Kumar were also present.