Uttarakhand Kranti Dal acting president Pankaj Viyas demanded that the State Government should declare Gairsain as the permanent capital of Uttarakhand immediately. The party is not in favor of making Gairsain a summer or a winter capital. “The people are also with us on this emotive issue. However, BJP and Congress have befooled them,” he said.
Referring to corruption reigning in the state, he said that things have turned grimmer since Uttarakhand had come up as a state. “This is a reality we can hardly deny,” he said, adding that regrettably, the people are now saying that they were much better off when the present state was part of Uttar Pradesh.
Dwelling on the excise scam, Viyas said that the Chief Minister Harish Rawat should resign.
“Besides, we want the state government to come up a white paper on the disaster scam. Besides, a CBI inquiry should be ordered to fix responsibility for fiddling with the momentous disaster. The report on the scam submitted by the chief secretary is a sham. The people have every right to know what had happened with the funds that had come from across the country and abroad for the deluge- ravaged people and how the senior officials squandered away the public money during those critical days on food they had gorged and the like,” he said.
Tearing into BJP and Congress, he said both have take their turns to ruin the state. “No development is happening here. Only pompous announcements are being made to beguile the people,” he said.
Viyas said that UKD is not in favor of giving facility and benefits by way of reservation to the indentified statehood activists. “Things started this way when N D Tiwari was the Chief Minister. This is a divisive game aside from the fact that the people who had suffered to have Uttarakhand carved out of UP are nowhere in the picture as far as the proposed governmental largesse is concerned. They do not demand anything either. It was a mass movement,” he added.