Tearing into the Congress, now engaged in a tussle with the Congress-led State Government over the continued alliance of the Progressive Democratic Front (PDF) with the party, Uttarakhand BJP president said on Friday that the State is bearing the brunt of the deepening fissures between the party and the Government it leads. “Development works are being thwarted with the officials desisting from implementing the public welfare programmes,” he said. He dared the PDF to sever ties with the Congress and the government to spare itself the humiliation the group has been suffering at the hands of the influential State Congress leaders.
Bhatt said that with both Congress and PDF locking horns, it is the state that is suffering the consequences. “We have not been surprised by what is happening. The Congress and the PDF came together after the 2012 election with the sole motive of grabbing and enjoying power. It is an opportunistic alliance with nothing ideological to cement them. Now quite naturally, they are drifting apart ahead of the election,”
“It is clear that the Congress has no commitment to the welfare of the state and the people, inclined as they are to cling to power by any means. It has pampered the PDF for so long a time as it proved a useful tool for it to stick to power. PDF leaders are equally power hungry. Which is why they are sticking together despite the state Congress president humiliating the PDF almost daily. They seem to have no self respect left in them. The people are watching them,” Bhatt said.
He further said that the sooner PDF severs ties with the Congress the better for them. “Otherwise, they would forfeit the trust the people reposed in them during the 2012 Assembly election,” the state BJP chief said.