After claiming that BJP candidates will comfortably win all five parliamentary seats in the State, BJP Election Organising Committee convener Ajay Bhatt completely ruled out any factionalism in the party. He alleged that Congress-led State Government lacks vision for development and the mountainous areas are in the urgent need of development activities.
While addressing the mediapersons in a press conference held at state party office in Dehradun on Thursday, Bhatt has alleged that the Congress-led State Government has changed the foreign liquor policy in the State which will have adverse affect on the excise besides, cases of bootlegging are also expected to increase across the State. “Party leaders and activists will unite in order to draft the policy for elections on April 18 once the process of nomination is over,” he said, adding that committee convenor and coordinators will do extensive touring in all five parliamentary seats of the State.
As per roster prepared by the party, the leaders along with office bearers will tour Tehri and Haridwar parliamentary constituencies respectively on April 19 and Nainital and Almora parliamentary constituencies on April 20 and the team will tour in Pauri parliamentary constituency on April 21.
After alleging that the Congress-led State Government has not taken enough steps for redressing the grievances being faced by the disaster hit victims, Bhatt said that the Union Government is yet to sanction Rs 8,000 crore for the rehabilitation for 278 villages across the state. According to him, the registry of the land was done at SIDCUl, Haridwar at the rate of year 2006 in 2014 which is clear example of corruption in the state government. He also alleged that Congress-led State Government has spent crore of rupees while announcing schemes which are the cheap ways to gain the attention of the electors in the State.
Bhatt also condemned Vidhan Sabha Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal for participating in the pubic rallies ahead of the lok Sabha election and termed it completely unconstitutional and also urged from him to abstain himself from campaigning for elections. According to him, He said that attending public meetings or participating in campaigning along with Chief Minister Harish Rawat or Cabinet Ministers is not acceptable as Kunjwal holds constitutional post in the state assembly and added that the party will highlight this issue in front of election commission. Bhatt claimed that special policy for the development of Himalayan States is already drafted in the BJP’s manifesto which was recently released whereas as UPA has completely ignored the Himalayan States.
Committee members which include Munna Singh Chauhan, Madan Kaushik, state spokesman Umesh Agarwal and Mukesh Mahendra, Dhan Singh Rawat and PK Agarwal were also present.