A day after Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat resigned lower than 4 months after taking up, the Congress Saturday held a press convention to dwell on the political instability within the state and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of displaying starvation for energy.
Congress chief Randeep Surjewala mentioned, “In 2017, BJP formed a government in Uttarakhand. But instead of working for the development of the state, they went power-hungry and in the last four and half years, two chief ministers have been changed.”
Surjewala additionally took to Twitter to assault Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief JP Nadda for betraying the individuals of Uttarakhand by bringing political instability within the state. “Modi ji-Nadda ji has betrayed the people of Devbhoomi by pushing Uttarakhand into political instability, loot of power and the ‘chief minister swap scheme’,” he tweeted.
In one other tweet, he named all of the BJP CMs within the state over time and referred to as it BJP’s “chair changing game” in Uttarakhand. “Three Chief Ministers in Uttarakhand in four and a half years – Trivendra Singh Rawat, Teerth Singh Rawat and the upcoming CM. The previous record of BJP is also the same – Nityananda Swami, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Bhuvanchandra Khanduri, Ramesh Pokhriyal and Bhuvanchandra Khanduri.”
2/2मोदी जी-नड्डा जी ने उत्तराखंड को राजनीतिक अस्थिरता, सत्ता की लूट व “मुख्यमंत्री अदला-बदली योजना” में धकेल देवभूमि की जनता के साथ धोखा व हितों पर कुठाराघात किया है।
भाजपा की ये असलियत है -:आवत है, जावत है,खावत है,खोवत है,पावत है, भगावत है,उत्तराखंड आहत है।#UttarakhandCM https://t.co/2lVluj5fPD
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) July 3, 2021
Talking in regards to the Change of chief ministers in different BJP-ruled states too, Surjewala mentioned they modified CMs in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka earlier. Surjewala additional mentioned that the BJP has misplaced ethical floor to rule the state.
Senior Congress chief and former CM Harish Rawat attacked the BJP on Friday, saying it was false propaganda {that a} by-election couldn’t be held because of Covid or that Rawat was resigning due to constitutional compulsions.
The BJP has referred to as a gathering of its legislative group on Saturday afternoon on the social gathering headquarters in Dehradun.
Late on Friday evening, Rawat reached Raj Bhavan at round 11 pm with Cabinet colleagues and handed over his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya, citing the constitutional provision requiring him to get elected to the Assembly inside six months, and the unlikelihood of that.
Speaking to mediapersons after submitting his resignation, Rawat thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda for trusting him with the publish. “Considering the constitutional crisis… I found it appropriate to resign,” he mentioned.
State leaders are questioning the function performed by the central management in the complete episode, which has left the social gathering within the unenviable place of going earlier than the voters with two adjustments of CMs inside months.
BJP insiders additionally level out that the social gathering misplaced at the least one alternative to get Rawat elected, nicely in time, when bypoll was held for the Salt Assembly seat in April. The bypoll had been necessitated by the dying of BJP MLA Surendra Singh Jeena. On March 29, 19 days after Rawat turned CM, the BJP had introduced Jeena’s elder brother Mahesh as its candidate.
Asked about this Friday after he resigned, Rawat mentioned he couldn’t contest from Salt as he was down with Covid on the time. He had examined constructive on March 22.