Monday, 24 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The State presidents of Cong & BJP to hold Maun Vrats in protest against each other today
The politics of Maun Vrat has begun in Uttarakhand on the handling of the pandemic of Covid -19 in the state. The State presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress have decided to sit on Maun Vrat on Monday on the issue. Accusing the Congress party of creating an environment of fear in the state on Covid 19, the State president of BJP, Madan Kaushik has decided to sit on a Maun Vrat at state headquarters of the party on Monday. The presidents of district units of the BJP too would follow their leader by staging silent protests in their respective districts. The BJP has said that on the one hand the state government and self help groups are working tirelessly to save the lives of the people during the pandemic, on the other hand the Congress is playing the politics of fear. “The Congress party is not interested in public service and its leaders are only engaged in finding petty faults. The Congress should work to serve the people,’’ said Manveer Chauhan, the BJP State media in-charge.
Reacting to the plan of the BJP, the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh announced that he will hold a Maun Vrat at Congress State headquarters on Monday for good sense to prevail on the state BJP government. He said that the health services of the state are in a very bad shape and the pandemic has exposed the health system.
However it was the former chief minister and general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC), Harish Rawat who set the ball rolling by sitting on a silent protest at his residence in Dehradun on Sunday. The veteran leader said that he paid tribute to Gandhian and environmentalist Sunder Lal Bahuguna and the people who died due to Covid -19. He said that pandemic has spread in the rural areas and people are dying in absence of treatment. The state should throw all its resources to save these lives, he said.
