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Congressmen to march to governor’s house at Dehradun on 29 th Oct

The Uttarakhand Congress Committee delegation has not been accorded appointment by the governor of Uttarakhand Baby Rani Maurya who wanted to meet her to present the memorandum demanding the resignation of the Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat after the Uttarakhand High Court issued directives to the SSP CBI to investigate the alleged charges of corruption levelled by two journalists of the hilly state Umesh Sharma, the proprietor of Samachar Plus and senior journalist of Parvatjan web portal n magazine regarding his allegedly being complicit in an illegal gratification matter when he was the observer of Jharkhand BJP in 2016.

The high court had also quashed the FIRs filed against these two scribes on allegedly fabricated grounds.

After not getting the appointment by the Uttarakhand governor despite their request to seek the appointment repeatedly, the pradesh Congress committee alongwith hundreds of its leaders and workers will march from the Congress headquarter in Dehradun to the Governor house demanding the resignation of the Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on moral grounds on 29th October morning.

The vice president of Uttarakhand State Congress Committee Surya Kant Dhasmana has appealed to the leaders and workers of Congress in the state and Dehradun to participate in large numbers to march to the governor’s house on 29th October in the morning to present a memorandum to the governor Baby Rani Maurya demanding the resignation of the chief minister T. S. Rawat in moral grounds in order to smooth conduction of the impartial CBI probe.

It may be recalled that the state Congress senior leaders Harish Rawat, former UK CM n national general secretary of AICC, present state Congress president Pritam Singh, leader of the opposition in the state assembly n senior leader Indira Hridayesh, Devendra Yadav, central party observer of state Congress n several other leaders had today adressed a press conference demanding the CM’s resignation on moral grounds for the conduction of the free, fair n impartial CBI probe who had been flaunting of zero tolerance on corruption in the state .

The central party observer Devendra Yadav n Harish Rawat are on the three days whirlwind political tour of the capital to revive n strengthen the party organisation in view of the fast aporoaching elections in the state in the intial months of 2022.

Meanwhile the chief minister of Uttarakhand state Trivendra Singh Rawat has today approached the supreme court, filing a special leave petition against the high court decision of CBI probe against him on the alleged charges of corruption by a journalist.

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Sunil Negi

Sunil Negi is a senior journalist and president of Uttarakhand Journalists Forum ( Regd). He usually writes on socio political subjects and have been contributing articles in print media for the last several years. Mr. Sunil Negi had been felicitated by All India Achievers conference's Pride of India and excellence awards apart from several other recognitions. He has translated a book on ecological disaster of Uttarakhand of June 2013 and edited and published two editions of Uttaranchal's Who's Who.

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