Monday, 27 September 2021 | PNS | New Tehri
Former Congress state president and former MLA Kishore Upadhyaya, speaking at a youth conference organised under the aegis of forest rights movement at New Tehri said that people of Uttarakhand had first right on the mineral wealth, water, forest and land which they are not getting now.
He said that the traditional forests rights of the people of the state should be restored without any delay. He also demanded that all castes of Uttarakhand be included in OBC and brought under the purview of 27 per cent reservation. The Congress leader said that the Tehri dam is providing electricity to the entire state resulting in economic benefit hence he demanded free electricity and water to the people of Tehri.
Congress state vice president Dhirendra Pratap said that inflation and unemployment will be the main issues in the coming Assembly elections. The Congress’ Parivartan Yatra is getting tremendous support from the people, he added. Various local public representatives were also present on the occasion.
