Sting video: Another BJP memo to Guv demanding CBI enquiry

In a bid to pressurise the State Government to recommend a CBI inquiry into the sting video, state BJP again met Governor Dr KK Paul at Raj Bhavan on Monday. During the meeting, they submitted another memorandum to the Governor while enquiring into the  status of the previous memorandum they had submitted on July 25.  

In it, they demanded the Governor to dismiss  the Chief Minister with immediate effect, to instruct the state government to lodge FIR against the officer who was purportedly shown as  seeking monetary benefit on behalf of the state government and also to refer the matter to the CBI for probe.  

After submitting the  memorandum, state BJP president and Chaubattakhal MlA Tirath Singh Rawat said they  came to enquire into the status of their earlier petition. “We asked  the Governor  about the action the state government has taken on it. The  Governor has assured us he would take appropriate action on it,” he said.

Talking to the media, leader of Opposition Ajay Bhatt said that if state government fails to act according to  the Governor’s instruction they would approach the Union Home Minister and even the President in Delhi. He reiterated the  party’s demand that the CM should quit owning moral responsibility for  what had happened.  

To put pressure and to show   the united face of  the State BJP,  several MlAs, including   Ganesh Joshi(Mussoorie), Pushkar Singh Dhami (Khatima), Rajkumar Thukral (Rudrapur), Harbans Kapur (Garhi Cant), Surendra Singh Jeena (Salt), Arvind Pandey (Gadarpur) and Premchand Aggrawal (Rishikesh), were present. This aside, former MlA Prakash Pant andKhajandas, BJP councilors and the party spokesperson Prakash Suman Dhyani were among those present.