The opposition Congress party has decided to cancel its proposed rally in Dehradun on March 18 due to the threat posed by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The party was planning to hold a massive rally in Dehradun on March 18 against what it termed anti people polices of the incumbent BJP government. On the day, the Trivendra Singh Rawat led BJP government is completing three years in office.
The Uttarakhand government has decided to hold programmes in all the 70 assembly constituencies of the state to commemorate three years in office of Trivendra Singh Rawat government.
The spokesperson of the Uttarakhand Congress Garima Dasauni said that the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president, Pritam Singh had directed that the rally should be cancelled as the threat caused by the dreaded Coronavirus is increasing continuously.
She said that the PCC president felt that the Congress being a responsible party has decided not to hold the rally as a precautionary measure.
The Coronavirus has been declared as pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and one patient in India has succumbed to the disease.