Garhwal Post Bureau
Dehradun, 17 Oct: Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress President Karan Mahara today alleged that Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s recent public speeches are increasingly getting confined to rhetoric of typical phrases like “Fake Narrative”, “Urban Naxal”, and “Jihad”. Mahara claimed that Dhami’s rhetorical statements now appear to constitute the entirety of his political discourse. If these three expressions were removed from his speeches, the CM would be left with nothing substantive to convey to the people. According to Mahara, these terms have become a convenient shield for the CM in order to distract the public from pressing governance failures.
In a statement issued today to the media, Mahara alleged that that the state has witnessed a series of scams being unearthed in recent times, ranging from recruitment irregularities to rampant looting in the mining sector and the illegal appropriation of government lands. The PCC Chief claimed that while leaders of the BJP are embroiled in grave charges of corruption and the harassment of women, the CM remains indifferent, choosing to turn a blind eye. He further claimed that corruption within the Health Department has reached alarming proportions, with equipment worth only a few thousand rupees being procured at inflated rates running into lakhs, and crores being embezzled without accountability.
At the same time, Mahara also criticised the government for spending Rs 1001 crores of taxpayers’ money on enhancing the CM’s image in the media, even as hospitals in the hill regions suffer from a shortage of medicines, schools remain without teachers, and roads continue to be plagued by potholes.
The Congress leader also asserted that the public is not unaware of internal dissent within the BJP, a significant faction of which is reportedly working to unseat CM Dhami. Despite this, Mahara said, Dhami persists in emotionally manipulating the electorate by repeating the same set of phrases, rather than addressing the substantive concerns of governance. He also claimed that when a government lacks a credible record of achievements and when corruption and administrative failure are evident across departments, resorting to terms like “Fake Narrative,” “Urban Naxal,” and “Jihad” becomes a last-ditch effort to deflect scrutiny. He claimed that the CM’s speeches have ceased to be responses to public queries and have instead become a tool to obscure the shortcomings of his administration.
