Resolved not to lose a chance to embarrass Chief Minister Harish Rawat, facing the heat from many quarters, State BJP seized the matter of the PCC chief Kishore Upadhyay suggesting to the CM to send the scam-tainted UPCl MD SS Yadav on forced leave till the probe is over and the State BJP’s chief spokesperson Munna Singh Chouhan asked Upadhyay to suggest the same regarding the CM who has a host of corruption charges tagged to him. “If the PCC chief dares go for it my party would support him heart and soul,” assured Chouhan.
later, taking potshots at the State Government, the BJP leader said that the latter shifting DM/SSPs on whims is resulting in serious law and order problems across the State. “Things are happening at the behest of the Cabinet ministers. This is tantamount to contempt of court as the Apex Court pronounced in Prakash Singh vs Union Government of India case that no IG/police officer/SP is to be changed unless and until he completes two years of his tenure. In case of exigency, the State Government can do things under police establishment act while taking police establishment on board. In Uttarakhand, a police establishment exists. But seldom is its recommendation sought by the State Government,” Chouhan said.
Rubbing salt into wounds of the Harish Rawat Government, the BJP leader said that the CM is using the transfers of the administrative and police officials to humour the sulking Ministers, while citing the fact that Yashpal Arya is now in a sulk mode. “Whenever such mass transfers are made they are being done under the veneer of public interests. But the people know what is what. They are protesting against such indiscriminate transfers of DMs and others,” he said.
Training his guns on the dissident BJP MlA Bhimlal Arya who has been hobnobbing with the Congress, Chouhan said he had bared his fangs recently to the secretary education over the re-appointment of a retired teacher. “The MlA who is now the blue- eyed- boy of the CM threatened the senior education department official, saying that if his plea is not met he would make the officials face dire consequences.
He also said that he would in that case do a sit-in outside the CM’s residence. This is dangerous trend and the more the CM allows himself to prove pliable to such diabolical moves the grimmer would be things for the State,” the BJP leader warned.