Monday, 12 October 2020 | PNS | Dehradun/Roorkee
Five persons including the previous chairman of the erstwhile Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee, Mohan Prasad Thapliyal and the Tehsildar of Roorkee, Sunaina Rana died in two separate road mishaps on Sunday. Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Vidhan Sabha speaker Prem Chand Agrawal and BJP State president Banshidhar Bhagat among others have expressed deep grief at the accidental deaths.
Senior BJP leader Thapliyal and the party’s OBC cell Chamoli district head Kuldeep Singh died in a car accident near Peepalkoti in Chamoli district. Expressing grief at the deaths, Bhagat said that both were dedicated party workers and that their accidental demise is an irreparable loss to both the party and society.
In the second mishap, Roorkee Tehsildar, Sunaina Rana was returning with her driver and helper from Nainital when the official jeep they were in fell into a canal. She had gone to Nainital for a five-day training and had departed from there on Saturday evening with driver Sunder and helper Ompal for Roorkee. At about 4 AM on Sunday, when the jeep near Najibabad, the driver is believed to have lost control of the vehicle, causing it to fall into a canal. The police and administrative teams reached the spot on being informed and began a rescue operation. After about four hours, the jeep was extricated from the water with the bodies of Rana and Ompal in it while the body of the driver was also recovered later.
