Stepping up BJP’s movement to force the State Government to recommend a CBI probe into the RTI-triggered disaster scam and liquor sting that raised ripples across the State, putting the State Government’s integrity under a cloud, MlA from Gadarpur Assembly constituency in Udham Singh Nagar, Arvind Pandey has threatened to gherao Chief Minister Harish Rawat on his proposed visit to Udham Singh Nagar’s Barah area on August 20.
“When Madhya Pradesh CM could have asked for a CBI probe into Vyapam scam and Narendra Modi when he was Gujarat’s Chief Minister could have gone for the same vis-a-vis the Godhra case, it is amazing that the Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat is singularly reluctant to go for the CBI probe into the disaster and others scams that are bedeviling the state,” he said, adding that he would gheroa CM when he would visit Udham Singh Nagar’s Barah area on Thursday.
“We have recently met the Governor, demanding a CBI probe into the strings of alleged grafts. But instead of taking steps to curb corruptions, the State Government is registering fabricated cases against BJP workers,” alleged the MlA from Gadarpur.
“We would ventilate the people’s anger through stir whenever CM visits Udham Singh Nagar in the coming days,” he warned.
Notably, state BJP and its youth wing Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) have announced its programmes to gehrao the Chief Minister during his public meetings across the state, citing CM’s refusal to have disaster and liquor scams probed by CBI.
The BJYM had decided to gherao CM during his proposed Haldwani trip slated for Monday. However, the stir did not materialise after CM cancelled his Haldwani trip.