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Pressure on Cong to announce face in U’khand- Godiyal

Thursday, 23 September 2021 | PNS | Dehradun

Says that Congress has always worked for developing leadership among Dalits and downtrodden sections

The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Ganesh Godiyal has accepted that pressure is on the Congress party after BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have announced the names of the persons who would be the face of their parties in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttarakhand. He however added that the works and developmental activities during the term of the Congress government in the state are the face of the Congress party.

The PCC president said this when asked by The Pioneer about pressure on the Congress to declare its face in Uttarakhand since the BJP has declared that chief minister Puskhkar Singh Dhami would be its face while AAP has made Colonel (Retd) Ajay Kothiyal its CM candidate.

Launching an attack on the CM Dhami for going on an overdrive of announcing sops without making provision for the budget, Godiyal said that the economy of the state is in shambles. He said that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report has mentioned that in the last four and half years the burden of debt on Uttarakhand has increased by a whopping Rs 39,000 Crores. Godiyal said that the situation is such that the state government in order to pay salaries and pensions has to borrow money.  He said that the CM is making only the announcements and weaving a web of lies to fool the people of the state.

The PCC president said that the Congress party is taking the services of economists and other experts for drafting its manifesto and the document would have the party’s plan to revive the economy of the state. Godiyal claimed that rampant corruption has occurred in the purchase of medical equipment. He said that the CM Dhami should get this and the scams of Kumbh testing and higher education investigated failing which it would become clear that he is protecting the culprits. when asked to comment on the statement of former chief minister Harish Rawat that he want that someone from Dalit community is made the CM of Uttarakhand , Godiyal said that any person who is suited to lead the state  should be made the CM. He added that Congress party has always worked for developing leadership among Dalits and downtrodden sections of the society and had made a Dalit PCC president, speaker of Vidhan Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP.

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