Former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Congress leader Harish Rawat criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday for the arrest of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, saying that it's an attack on democracy.
"Congress manifesto points were discussed. We also requested that the Congress government, which will come to power in Uttarakhand in the coming times, will keep a focus on ways to face any natural disasters in the central Himalayan areas," Rawat said while speaking to ANI.
As the Uniform Civil Code Bill is to be tabled in the state legislative assembly on Tuesday, Uttarakhand Assembly Leader of Opposition Yashpal Arya on Tuesday said that they are not against UCC.
Congress leader and Uttarakhand former Chief Minister Harish Rawat, on Tuesday, slammed the Uttarakhand government on the Uniform Civil Code and said that this law should be enacted by the central government, not the state.
On the occasion of Diwali, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday donated a lamp to the replica of the Ram Temple made of flowers at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh office on Tilak Road here and prayed to Lord Ram for the prosperity of the state.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday reached the residence of former State Chief Minister Harish Rawat and extended Diwali greetings.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials on Friday served a notice to Harish Rawat, a senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, while he's hospitalised at Jolly Grant Hospital in Dehradun.
Rawat's car on Tuesday collided with a divider at Bazpur while he was traveling from Haldwani to Udham Singh Nagar's Kashipur on Tuesday. In a post on social media app X, Rawat said he felt mild tremors after the collision, following which he got himself checked up in a hospital.
Talking to ANI, Rawat said, "They are nothing but BJP's gimmicks to defame the opposition. They are misusing their majority and creating an atmosphere of terror."
Congress leader Harish Rawat on Saturday hit out at Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after the latter said Congress always belittled the tribal people in the state.