Inclusion of UP villages in U’khand resented

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, November 19

Former Uttarakhand Congress president Kishore Upadhayay has resented any move to include certain number of Uttar Pradesh villages that fall along Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand border into Uttarakhand.

Addressing a press conference in Dehradun, Kishore Upadhyay said that he had come to know that in the recent talks Uttarkhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have agreed to transfer some of Uttar Pradesh villages that fall alongside Uttarakhand into Uttarakhand.

“If there is such a decision, it is important that Uttarakhand Chief Minister should make it public. It is equally important that the state government should take people of Uttarakhand into confidence and there should be general debate first before taking any initiative towards including Uttar Pradesh villages into Uttarakhand”, Kishore Upadhyay pointed out.

Responding to a query, Upadhayay doubted that the construction work of an the all-weather road in Uttarakhand would be completed by 2019. “The way the work is progressing at a snail’s pace, I doubt that all-weather road would be completed with its target completing period of 16 months”, he observed.