Cong charge against Rajnath Singh

Dehradun, January 14

The Uttarakhand Congress has accused senior BJP leader and Uttarakhand BJP election in-charge Rajnath Singh of being hand-in-glove with those who had done atrocities on Uttarakhand people during statehood movement.

In a statement issued today, Uttarakhand Congress spokesman Surendra Kumar said Rajnath Singh had given promotion to Anant Kumar Singh, a UP IAS officer, who had committed atrocities on Uttarakhand state agitationists in the state agitation movement.

Surendra Kumar also disclosed that son of Rajnath Singh had managed 100 bighas of land in Uttarakhand ever since the BJP Government came to power in the state. He also held that the BJP has no right to criticise the Congress manifesto as saffron party had only fooled the people in its five-year rule. He reminded that there were 5 lakh unemployed in the state when the BJP came to power in 2007, whereas today this figure has reached 7-lakh mark.

Meanwhile, terming the return of BC Khanduri as the Chief Minister four months ago a political strategy, Singh reiterated that Khanduri would remain the Chief Minister in case of party wins “The issue does not grip the party. We are confident of forming the next government in the state and Khanduri would be our Chief Minister. But the services of former Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal would be actively used as support for campaigning,” said Singh, while interacting with mediapersons here.

He also stressed that despite changing the Chief Ministers on and off, the party did manage to give a stable government during its five-year term.

Singh also flayed the Congress-led UPA Government in the Centre for playing vote-bank politics on the issue of reservation for the minorities. “We condemn the UPA Government’s decision to give reservation in jobs based on religion and caste. It is against the Constitution. We believe reservation should be given on the basis of social and economic status,” he said.

While focusing on the Uttar Pradesh elections as well, Singh said the UPA had failed on all fronts and it’s leaders had begun behaving like defeated warriors even before the war had begun.

“Things had come to such a pass that for the first time the Law Minister was recently served a notice for violating the model code of conduct on the issue of reservations, so much so that the Prime Minister was forced to give an explanation to the Chief Election Commission,” he said.