A delegation of Congress party MLAs led by Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh met the governor Baby Rani Maurya at her residence on Thursday. In the meeting the Congress leaders claimed that the state government blocked them from raising the issues of public interest under sections 310 and 58 during the monsoon session of assembly. They complained that the state government was only interested in getting its constitutional obligations fulfilled and abstained from discussion on issues of public interest.
The Congress delegations handed over a memorandum to the governor in which the issues which the party wanted to raise in the assembly were mentioned. The party said that it wanted discussion on handling of Covid-19 situation in Uttarakhand, the unemployment triggered by Covid-19 lockdown and increasing unemployment in the state. The Congress leaders added that they wanted discussion on recent natural disasters in Pithoragarh, Bageshwar, Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts and its inapt handling by the state government. The party listed the pathetic condition of farmers and non-payment of their pending dues, deteriorating law and order condition and master plan of Kedarnath as some of the issues it wanted to raise in the assembly. The Congress leaders requested the governor that she should direct the state government to ensure that the issues of public interest are raised in the assembly.
Apart from PCC president, the delegation included Manglaur MLA Qazi Nizamuddin, Bhagwanpur MLA Mamta Rakesh, Jaspur MLA Adesh Chauhan and Kedarnath MLA Manoj Rawat.