The BJP veteran Satpal Maharaj said on the sidelines of the Parivartan rally organised at Pul Jatwara in Jwalapur on Sunday that his party would fight the upcoming Assembly poll with its lotus symbol alone, sans any CM face and win hands down. Other BJP leaders like the State party chief Ajay Bhatt, the Union Minister Ajay Tamta and the party MlA, Madan Kaushik came down heavily on CM Harish Rawat, saying he would face the music soon, the CBI probe on.
Addressing the rally, former state Chief Minister and MP from Haridwar Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank said, “CM is neck deep in scams galore from the infamous CD scam to the Rs 450 crore disaster management scam, He would be shown the door soon,” he said. He also cited the fact of the free108 ambulance service struggling to survive while going hammer and tongs at the state government. The former Union minister Satpal Maharaj said, “Rawat government has done vikas (progress) of only his own family and mining mafia. He is instrumental in robbing the Ganga of her resources, hell bent as he is to loot the state in league with the mining robbers. Mother Ganga would deny him salvation when he would take holy dip in her,” he said.
He further said the CBI probe on, CM might be arrested soon while he was asked to comment on the recent arrest of the former Air Force chief S P Tyagi for his alleged involvement in corruption in a chopper case . Sounding confident of the landslide victory, he said his party is likely to win 55 seats in the ensuing Assembly election.
On the issue of note ban, Maharaj said, “The country has been passing through the period of ‘Prasav Kal’ (delivery period). “ Bearing some pain is inevitable. This would however prove to be a short-lived suffering. Things would look up soon,” he said.
BJP MP from Almora Ajay Tamta who is also a Union Minister of State said that in the Kumaon region, Congress would be wiped off completely. Earlier, at Aroma College of Bahadrabad, the rally was welcomed by the Minister from Haryana Nayab Singh Saini.
He asked the people to stand by the PM solidly. “He is a visionary as well as a man of action who has taught Pakistan lesson by way of the surgical strike,” he said.