The Congress party’s State unit will undertake a Laltain Yatra across the State to elicit the attention of the public on the failures of the State Government on various fronts.
The Congress will begin this state-wide campaign today from chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s Doiwala constituency. The Pradesh Congress Committee president Pritam Singh and leader of opposition Indira Hridayesh said this while addressing a Press conference at the Congress Bhawan here on Sunday. The State Government under chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat will complete three years in office next month. In this context, the PCC president Pritam Singh said that influenced by the pleasing promises made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the people of Uttarakhand had elected the BJP to office with a strong majority in the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections. Out of the 70 seats in the assembly, the BJP had won from 57 seats. Singh opined, “However, contrary to the expectations of the public, the State government has spent its three years in office executing works which are detrimental to the interests of the public.
The government has failed in executing development works with the chief minister failing to present any vision of his for this. The developmental works initiated by the previous Congress government were also stalled by the current government. At the same time, unemployment is on the rise even as employed youth are being terminated from their jobs. The government has no control over price rise. Apart from this, by bringing in the Devsthanam Act, the state government is tampering with the traditions of religious places,” alleged the PCC chief.
The leader of opposition in the Vidhan Sabha said that the state’s economy is now in dire straits. She said, “The government does not have enough funds to pay the salaries of employees and pensions. The government is taking loan from the market for this purpose. The Laltain Yatra of the Congress will be held in every Vidhan Sabha constituency to throw light on the failures of the state government on various fronts,” she said.