In a bid to gherao the Harish Rawat led Uttarakhand Government, which was bubbling with confidence, leader of Opposition Ajay Bhatt demanded discussion on disaster because State Government has failed to rebuild Uttarakhand even after one year of disaster as the House assembled on the first day of special session of Vidhan Sabha at Gairsain on Monday.
Opposition asked treasury bench to send a delegation of young MlAs on foot to Kedarnath so that it would send message across the globe that everything is in place.
later speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal asked Opposition that their issue will be heard by the House during Zero Hour. Bhatt alleged that State Government has failed to rebuild the State so House should debate on it. later other BJP MlA Madan Kaushik, Bishan Singh Chufal, Malchand, Ganesh Joshi, Teerath Singh Rawat, Surendra Singh Jeena and Dilip Rawat spoke on it.
After lunch the house was being presided by Deputy Speaker Dr Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri. After listening to MlA Jeena, Dy Speaker asked Kedarnath MlA Shaila Rani Rawat to express their views to which the Opposition bench rose from their seat and said that House is under section of vidhan sabha 58 so treasury bench can't participate on it and argument arose between the chair and Opposition. To pacify the Opposition CM Harish Rawat rose from his seat but Opposition said that if House listens under 310 then anyone can participate. later Dy Speaker withdrew his announcement and the House moved smoothly. Thereafter CM Rawat replied to the Opposition and asked that there is need to send message across the country that Yatra is running smoothly so that yatra, which is back bone of State economy, will return to its normal position by next two to three years. This year more than two lakh pilgrims including, 30,000 in Kedarnathhave paid their obesience so far.
To help the disaster victim State Government has been giving loan upto `50 lakh. In which 50 per cent amount is being given to the recipient as grant. In which they will not have to repay for next two years. later they will repay their loan amount at four per cent only for next three years. Earlier it was for two years only.
“To provide relief to the victims, we paid compensation to them , which were based on the basis of their own assessment,. Besides it, the State has disbursed compensation amount to 3569 out of 4009 missing people’s relatives including 987 from Uttarakhand. We are going to seek `4,000 crore additional assistance from Union Government for the reconstruction of Uttarakhand”, CM said. Bhatt also alleged that the cabinet minister has issued an alert to the people that if they visit Char Dham yatra after June 15 they will be visiting on their own risk. Taking cognisance on it CM Rawat said that he would enquire that who made such statement.