Reacting against the BJP national secretary Trivendra Singh Rawat statement against the State chief minister Harish Rawat, Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
spokesperson Dhirendra Pratap has described the statement as "childish" in which he had challenged the State Chief Minister Harish Rawat to contest Doiwala Assembly by-poll.He also challenged the BJP to field their senior leader against the CM Rawat during bypolls. He would definitely lose by a huge margin, he claimed.
He also claimed that CM Rawat is a leader of national stature and he could fight and win from any constituency of the state. On the charges of corruption in natural calamity funds Pratap sad BJP's charges as "Bogus and politically motivated" and asked them to knock the door of any anti-corruption agency, they would found no corruption.