BJP to stage rally for CBI probe into disaster relief scam

In continuance of its agitation to force the State Government to recommend a CBI probe into the alleged 2013 disaster relief scam, BJP, the principal Opposition party in Uttarakhand, would stage another rally on Tuesday that would cover 35 km, staring from  Jauljiwi. It would reach Dharchula and from there it would come back to Jauljiwi. The rally is meant to mobilise   the common people   behind the party’s CBI probe demand.BJP's Pithoragarh district spokesperson Jagat Martoliya said  the party’s district president Khushal Singh Bhandari and MlA Bishan Singh Chufal would lead the stir that would start from Jauljiwi's Gori bridge from 9 in the morning. The locals in large number  is expected to participate, he added.

"Funds were raised from across the nation and from abroad too  by way of relief to the deluge-affected people. But it is now crystal clear that much of such fund was embezzled with the connivance  of  the Congress-led state government. The crime is without a precedent and those involved should be  given exemplary punishment so as to deter others from indulging in such a macabre  crime again,” he said. He added that their  volunteers would go door to door to inform the  people of  the  ‘horrendous scam’.  Accusing the Chief Minister  Harish Rawat of being deeply involved in the embezzlement of relief funds, the BJP leader said the role of  the Congressmen on the  matter must be exposed to the  people in full. “A full-fledged  CBI probe  alone can do this,” he added.