Veteran Congress leader and former chief minister of Uttrakhand, Narain Dutt Tewari called the Uttrakhand incident as the worst tragedy of his life. He stressed that entire nation should join hand and help the `Dewabhomi’ to over come the calamity and above all to save as many lives as still a big number of people were stranded and fighting to save their lives.
``In this need of hour when the worst ever tragedy hit the state I could not even reach there as I was forced to remain here due to poor health”, claimed former Uttrakhand chief minister who also broke down while remembering that how bodies were still pilled up at Kedarnath Temple. Narain Dutt, who was already 88-years-old and had also remained chief minister of the Uttar Pradesh for three times said that the Army personnel should be appreciated for their outstanding and commendable job in rescuing thousands of people who were stranded due to sudden water flood.
On the role of Uttarkhand chief minister, Vijay Bahuguna and his team in forwarding relief to victims, Narain Dutt said that it is not the right to access the performance but definitely once the rescue operation was completed and life came back to normal in two to three months, Congress could review the contribution of Bahuguna and might also replace him. ``This is not the right time of post-mortem of job done by Vijay Bahuguna and such things could be done after two to three months”, Tewari replied to the media query. Upset with the number of causalities in the calamity, Narain Dutt said that the entire nation should condole the incident by forwarding a helping hand to Uttrakhand so that it could fight to overcome the biggest loss of life and property.