Reacting against the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal statement, who said that if you make comparison Uttarakhand with other States in corruption then you will find Uttarakhand is worst among all 28 States, Garhwal MP Satpal Maharaj expressed unawareness about any such survey.
Distancing itself from Kunjwal’s statement, Uttarakhand Congress spokesperson Dhirendra Pratap said that this is Speaker’s personal statement.
Talking to the media, Speaker Kunjwal said that State is facing all kind of corruption including political, social and bureaucratic. To weed out corruption from State, we will have to work together otherwise it would be difficult to sustain for long. If you make comparison with other States then it would be worst among other States. By doing this he has tried to embarrass the Vijay Bahuguna-led State Government.
Political analysts said that Speaker Kunjwal belongs to Union Cabinet Minister Harish Rawat’s faction because he was made Speaker on Rawat’s quota.
Recently concluded local body polls, ruling Congress party could not win even a single Mayor seat out of six. Since declaration of result Chief Minister Bahuguna’s opponent started putting its blame on Union Minister Rawat by saying that in Haridwar district party had given ticket to his candidate in Mayor seat of Haridwar and Roorkee Municipal Corporation but party could not win. They also alleged that as local body polls announced then Rawat wrote a letter to the Chief Minister and also distributed the letter among mediapersons. By doing this, Rawat created false impression among mass and party witnessed defeat. later, Rawat’s faction made counter allegation against the CM Bahuguna Government.
Even they sent details to the party high command. Realising heat Union Minister Rawat, who has recently opened public relation office in Dehradun because three out of 14 Assembly constituencies comes of Haridwar Parliamentary constituency falls in Dehradun district, said that he owns party defeat in local body polls.
At the same time, he said that if party had won then its credit would have gone to someone else. By saying this he put lid on this issue but his supporters are not ready to leave this matter here. In this process speaker Kunjwal has made such statement. Political analysts further said that Speaker quite often make statement to embarrass the State Government. For instance when State Government was busy in laying foundation stone of Vidhan Sabha building in Gairsain then he had alleged that no development is taking place in hilly region of the State.
Talking to The Pioneer Satpal Maharaj said that as far as Uttarakhand position is worst in corruption then he would like to know about who made this survey. He further said that we can put check on corruption by using E-technology. At the same time, he said that now State Government is going to build three flyovers namely Mohkampur, Bhandaribagh and ISBT to decongest the traffic. For this they will spend Rs 300 crore each on these three flyovers.