Taking serious cognisance of a complaint made on the telephone by the leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha, Ajay Bhatt regarding the incident of a woman member of the Champawat District Panchayat being harassed during the election to the post of the district Panchayat president there, Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi directed the chief secretary Subhash Kumar and and director general of police BS Sidhu to give him a detailed report of this incident by 5 pm on Wednesday. This instruction was issued by the Delhi Camp office late on Tuesday night as the Governor is in Delhi at present. The Governor said that the happenings related to him by Bhatt were unfortunate, shameful and disgusting.
He said that stringent steps should be taken to prevent such incidents from being repeated in any part of the State.It is pertinent to mention here that the Governor was informed by Ajay Bhatt on Tuesday evening over the telephone that during the election to the post of the district Panchayat president in Champawat, Congress party workers beat a woman member of the district Panchayat and forced her to vote for the Congress candidate in the presence of government officials, public, representatives of certain newspapers and news channels. Some news channels had also broadcast this incident.