PNS/ DEHRADUN
With the high-stakes Kedarnath bypoll drawing near, the opposition Congress is sharpening the pitch of its attack on the BJP. As part of its strategy to pay the BJP back in its own coin, the State Congress chief spokesperson Garima Mehra Dasauni countered the ruling party’s charges. Latching on to the State cabinet minister Ganesh Joshi’s charge during campaigning that there was corruption in the Kedarnath reconstruction work, post-disaster, she said that the work had been done under the direction of Colonel Ajay Kothiyal who is now in the saffron camp. Similarly, countering the saffron charge that then Congress had bungled with the Kedarnath disaster, she said that the man who was at the helm of the then State government Vijay Bahuguna had been relieved of his post in the aftermath of the Kedarnath tragedy because of his supposed inefficiency in taking on the emergency. “He is now in the saffron camp and his son is the in-charge of the BJP’s high-octane and high-profile campaign,” she said, adding that the people of Kedarnath were waiting impatiently to teach lesson to the party which had been stooping low to retain this seat.
