The Rampur Tiraha incident brought the Uttarakhand statehood movement to such a point that it shook the Governments of the time. It was after this incident, that the people of the State reaffirmed their will to achieve the creation of Uttarakhand State. Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said this after paying tributes to those who lost their lives in the incident at the Rampur Tiraha memorial at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on the anniversary of the incident on Monday.
Expressing his views on the occasion, the CM said that the youth of the State had also laid down their lives in the statehood movement and it is to them that the State pays tributes on the occasion.
Rawat said that the State Government is committed to creating the State as envisioned by the statehood activists. Various schemes are being made for development in the State which is also progressing on the developmental path. He also thanked the locals of Rampur Tiraha area for helping the statehood activists on the day of the incident. Rawat further averred that the State Government will provide all possible assistance to the dependents of those who had lost their lives in the statehood movement.
The Chief Minister also felicitated the local villagers who had come to the help of statehood activists on the day of the incident. He also met former MP Malti Sharma at her residence and honoured her for having assisted statehood activists. MP from UP, Kunwar Bhartendu, State Higher Education Minister Dhan Singh Rawat, Bharatiya Janata Party State president Ajay Bhatt, MlA Pradeep Batra and others were also present on the occasion.
It will be recalled that police action on statehood activists on October 2, 1994 at Rampur Tiraha had resulted in the death of six activists.