After repeated postponement, the Congress party in Uttarakhand finaly released its chargesheet against the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Sunday.
In the 12-page document attempts to target both the Central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the State government under chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
Regarding the allegations leveled in the charge-sheet, the Pradesh Congress Committee has challenged the BJP to provide answers to these to the public. The Congress has accused the BJP of interfering in the functioning of constitutional institutions, failing on the economic front and questioned the public welfare schemes of the centre.
In addition to leveling allegations on the Central government, the Congress has also questioned various aspects of the State Government’s functioning under chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
The Congress state in-charge Anugrah Narayan Singh, party state co-in-charge Rajesh Dharmani and coordinator of the charge-sheet committee of the party, Navprabhat released the charge-sheet at the Press conference held here at the Congress Bhawan on Sunday. Referring to particular incidents, the charge-sheet questions some of the decisions taken by the Modi government and avers that the Central Government tried to stifle constitutional institutions.
It refers to the joint Press conference held by Supreme Court judges, the Central Bureau of Investigation arresting one of its own senior officers and CBI director being relieved of his post, former chiefs of armed forces writing to the President of India on the one rank one pension issue, permission granted to Pakistan’s ISI to visit army set-ups following the terrorist attack in Pathankot and the prime minister visiting Pakistan without an official programme or invitation.
Targetting Modi, the charge-sheet states that during his five-year tenure, the Prime Minister travelled to 55 nations with Rs 2021 crore being spent on these foreign visits.
The Congress opined that these visits to foreign nations were not successful.
Referring to the BJP national president Amit Shah, the Congress questioned how his assets amounting to Rs 1.92 crore in 2012 increased to Rs 18.89 crore in 2019 even as the assets of his song increased considerably.
At the State level, the charge-sheet drafted by the Congress has questioned the State Government about the action taken on the various promises made earlier.
The Congress questioned what was done to fulfill the promise of filling vacancies in all departments within six months.
It has also asked why the new youth policy was not drafted, in how many departments under the state government were recruitment exams held, how many backlog posts in reserved category were filled, why was social audit of Swachchh Bharat mission not conducted and action taken on other promises.