Alleging that Congress leaders and workers had not supported her in the recently concluded panchayat election, the elected district panchayat member, Hema Purohit, from Chaktunwala segment, resigned from the Congress on Saturday. She has decided to contest the election of district panchayat chairperson as an independent candidate. She claimed that out of 43, at least 12 elected district panchayat members will support her in the election of district panchayat chairperson.
Hema Purohit claimed that she has submitted her resignation letter to the Uttarkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) Kishore Upadhyaya. She also claimed that large number of local Congress workers named Praveen Purohit, Prakash Purohit, Poonum Purohit, PV Uniyal, Rakesh Bhandari, Manish Rana, Ajay Pnawar, Sachin Uniyal among others have also resigned and submitted their resignation to state party high command.
She alleged that Congress Party local leaders and workers had not supported her candidature in the Panchayat election. Rather supporting her candidature, the Congress leaders were openly supported the BJP candidate in the Panchayat election. Despite this, she has been elected as district Panchayat member from Chaktunwala because she lived among the local residents and had worked for the redressal of their grievances in her last tenure as district Panchayat member. In the last Panchayat election, she was elected as district Panchayat member from Majri Mafi segment.