Congress workers staged a protest at Tehsil demanding displacement of IDPL colony residents. Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who participated in the dharna, said that if BJP comes forward in the fight to save IDPL, then we have no objection in hearing BJP Zindabad. On July 1, if the government cuts off the electricity and water of the residents of the colony, the Congress will strongly oppose it.
Addressing the gathering at the dharna site, former Chief Minister Harish Rawat said that the factory has been continuously in loss, during the Congress regime, I have been able to bring grants twice in the Union Cabinet. Under the BJP rule, public undertakings within the country are being handed over to private hands. This is the reason why the capital of some big people has increased rapidly. The industrialist standing at number 700 reaches the second number.
After the year 2014, industries have closed rapidly. HMT and IDPL are closed in Uttarakhand. When we were in the government, we had urged the central government to run it on lease. He said that now the central government has lost its way. That’s why we request the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to run IDPL as a public sector undertaking of the state government.
Former Chief Minister Rawat said that there is talk of making big things on the land of IDPL. If regional MP Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank comes forward on this issue, I am ready to stand behind him. We will not allow politics at the cost of IDPL. In the year 2024, we will fight them on the basis of issues and principles.
He said that all the MPs of Uttarakhand are silent on the issue of IDPL. The government is showing insensitivity by cutting off the electricity and water of IDPL township. The government is forcing the citizens living here to leave their homes. Rawat said that the Chief Minister needs to adopt a humanitarian approach. Rawat has warned that if the government cuts off the electricity and water in the IDPL area on July 1, we will fight it strongly. Congress will fight this battle against injustice.
Congress District President Mohit Uniyal, Metropolitan President Advocate Rakesh Singh Miyan, Jayendra Ramola, Rajpal Kharola, Vijay Pal Singh Rawat, Mahendra Bhatt, Anshul Tyagi, Madan Mohan Sharma, Mahila Congress District President Neelam Tiwari, Kirpal Singh HN Singh, Deep Sharma, Vinay Saraswat, Sunny Prajapati, Abhinav Malik etc. were present.
