The fate of Harish Rawat Government hanging fire, Pradesh Congress chief Kishore Upadhyay has fired a fresh salvo, alleging that the Chief Minister’s and his phones were being tapped at the behest of the Narendra Modi Government.
“Hell-bent on destabilising the democratically elected government in the State, BJP is out to unleash riots before 28 March-the day the Assembly is slated to see the floor test of the State Government. I also apprehend that the saffron camp would instigate large-scale violence on the day in and outside the Assembly to fulfill its sinister design,” he said while addressing a press conference in Haridwar on Monday.
Slamming Congress rebels Vijay Bahuguna and ex-Cabinet Minister Harak Singh Rawat for what he dubbed as back-stabbing, the PCC chief said, “The party high command made Bahuguna MP twice. He was made the CM too despite the fact that he lacked experiences to adorn the chair,” he said.
Tearing further into him, he said he had let down the legacy of secularism personified by his father for a handful of silvers. “He has done a great disservice to the memory of his father by allowing himself to be used as a pawn in the saffron brigade’s sweepstakes,” he said, adding that Bahuguna was intent on triggering division of the State on the Garhwal—Kumaon lines.
However, Upadhyay sounded a bit wary while criticising Harak Singh Rawat. “Despite what has happened, we are still ready to take the rebels into the Congress folds if they snap ties with the saffronites,” he said. Exuding confidence of the survival of the CM’s Government, he said that the CM would surely win the floor test on March 28.