Embattled Harish Rawat whom sting videos have stung twice since March-18-the day the political crisis struck the State-said on Monday that he is feeling awkward while facing the camera. “Things are so scary that even if one takes a selfie I freeze, thinking that he is making a sting,” he said while interacting with media persons after the High Court had upheld the Speaker’s action vis-a-vis the disqualified MlAs on Monday.
The battle-hardened Congress leader made it, however, clear that he is a hard nut to crack despite everything being unleashed on him to finish him off politically. He dared the Centre to subject BJP national president Amit Shah, general secretary Kailash Vijay Vargiya and other senior saffron leaders to Narco test. “If the Centre decides so I would be the first person to go for Narco test,” he said. He further said that he has given some suggestions to BJP-led Union Government. “They should pledge that they would not promote corruption while in power. They should order probes into the properties of all the CMs of Uttarakhand to make it clear as to who has made how much. They should constitute judicial enquiry to probe into the graft charges that marred the Governments since the time the State was carved out of Uttar Pradesh,” Harish Rawat said.
Quizzed about the CBI summons regarding the first sting that had surfaced on March 27, a day before the Centre had promulgated President’s Rule on the State, Rawat said that he has asked the CBI to excuse him till the floor test is held. “I would present myself before them of my own accord thereafter.