Himalayauk himalaya Gaurav Uttarakhand
Checking migration from the mountains would be the top priority of the Bharatiya Janata Party if elected to govern Uttarakhand, said the Union home minister and one of the party’s star campaigners Rajnath Singh on Sunday while addressing two public rallies in Bahadurgarh and Bahadrabad in Haridwar. Appealing for votes for BJP candidates Yateeshwaranand from Haridwar rural and Suresh Rathore from Jwalapur constituencies, Singh said that the clean image of the two times legislator Adesh Chauhan and Yateeshwaranand was enough to send the message to people that BJP workers worked not for politics but for nation building.
Highlighting the performance of BJP in previous Lok Sabha polls, Rajnath Singh said, that BJP was the first non-Congress party in Independent India which got sweeping majority to form the government in 70 years. “If anyone reviewed the works of Modi government in 2.5 years, it would definitely say that work has been done, may be less by some but no one got a black spot on character in any scam. On the contrary, hardly anyone would have escaped from the blame of indulgence in corruption in Congress,” he said. BJP wanted India to lead in knowledge and science at the world level.
The BJP leader justified demonetisation move saying it was the only way to check money flow to the terrorist and Naxalite groups and bring forth the unaccounted money.
Offering array of sops for farmers, businessmen and youths, the senior leader also ascertained that Kashmir was always an Indian state and would remain so — Pakistan must understand this by now.
On Kashmir issue the minister said that Modi government had given due response to Pakistan on its ‘Napak’ acts by performing surgical strikes. “Kashmir hamara tha, hai aur rahega” (Kashmir was and will remain ours), he said.
He added that Uttarakhand is an important and sensitive state and appealed the people to elect the BJP to govern the state for its development. “There was no attempt by the Congress government to stop migration from the mountains to plains. It would be our priority to generate employment in the state and check migration,” he said.
Commenting on the Congress-led state government, he said, “Corruption is a big issue in Uttarakhand and people are suffering a lot in day to day life. Irregularities and misappropriation in disaster relief funds in the Kedarnath disaster of 2013 is a living example of corruption of Congress government. We will give you a clean and corruption free government if you elect us.”
Earlier, the Haridwar MP Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank also addressing the gathering, criticising the Congress-led state government for rising graph of crime in the state comparing it with the statistical figures by national crime control bureau during term of BJP State Government.
