To pressurise the State Government for making Gairsain as permanent capital of the State, dozens of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) members led by its president Kashi Singh Airy carried out rally from the party office upto the Vidhan Sabha.
They were restricted outside police barricading at Rispana Bridge in Dehradun on Monday.
Dozens of UKD members assembled at its party office and carried out a rally with intent to gherao the Vidhan Sabha which passed through various localities of the city Gandhi Road, Prince Chowk, Haridwar Road before reaching at police barricading, Rispana Bridge.
To avoid any untoward incidents, police followed the rally till they reached outside the police barricading.
Protesters were prevented at Rispana barricading as heavy police forces were deployed to stop the protesters who were advancing towards Vidhan Sabha. Police faced verbal arguments with the protesters when they were trying to break the police barricading at Rispana Bridge. Some protesters were witnessed using force against police to break the barricading as well as to register their protest against the State Government in support of their demands.
UKD president Airy accused Congress led State Government and previous BJP led State Government for misleading the people of the State by not declaring Gairsain as permanent capital of the State.
After declaring Gairsain as permanent capital, it should made high tech city. State capital should be renamed as Chandranagar in the name of Veer Chandra Singh Garhwal.
As State faced with natural calamities in almost each year, the State Government should draft a major plan to cope with such situation. The Government should draft a plan to check migration of persons residing in remotest areas of the state.
Other present on the occasion were Pushpesh Tripathi, Narayan Singh, Harish Pathak, BD Raturi, Jai Prakash Upadhyay, lalit Bisht, Birendra Singh Bisht, Rinki Semwal, Asha Sharma, Anand Silmana, Dhamendra Kaithat, Kailash Joshi, Atul Rana, Mukesh Verma and others.