Ring created around every candidate, elected MLAs can be flown to Rajasthan
Thursday, 10 March 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
The Uttarakhand Congress has worked out a strategy to keep its group of newly elected MLAs away from attempts to poach them. Wary of the presence of national general secretary of BJP Kailash Vijayvargiya and the plan of the BJP to make every possible effort for formation of its government in Uttarakhand the central leadership of the Congress has become alert. The Congress has rushed a bevy of top and second rung leadership to Uttarakhand to stonewall the plans of the BJP and form its government in case it emerges as the single largest party in the 70 member assembly. On Tuesday Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel landed in Dehradun. Incidentally he had presented the budget of his state in the state assembly on the day. Apart from him the general secretaries Mohan Prakash and Ajay Makan also arrived in Dehradun to strengthen the central team of the Congress party. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed senior leader Deependra Singh Hooda as the central observer for Uttarakhand.
It is learnt that the Congress party has worked out a plan according to which one senior leader would get attached to every candidate of Congress party in the state. He would also be accompanied by a team which literally means that the Congress candidates would be under constant vigil. The party has also made a plan in which all the elected MLAs would be shifted to one or two places within the state on Thursday evening. One leader of the Congress party told The Pioneer that the party has even worked out a plan to airlift the elected MLAs to a “safe location” in the eventuality of a close finish. It is learnt that a fleet of helicopters has been kept ready to carry the MLA to a destination in Rajasthan which is ruled by the Congress government.
On Wednesday the observers took a meeting with the party candidates of Dehradun district at the state headquarters of the Congress party. The meeting was attended by the Leader of Opposition Pritam Singh, former cabinet ministers Hira Singh Bisht, Dinesh Agarwal, Navprabhat, vice president Suryakant Dhasmana, former MLA Rajkumar, Aryendra Sharma, Godavari Thapli, Jayendra Ramola and Gaurav Chaudhary.
